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[CITE: 16USC916f]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
                    CHAPTER 14--REGULATION OF WHALING
 
                  SUBCHAPTER II--WHALING CONVENTION ACT
 
Sec. 916f. Violations; fines and penalties

    Except as to violations defined in clause 3 of subsection (a) of 
section 916c of this title, any person violating any provision of the 
convention, or of any regulation of the Commission, or of this 
subchapter, or of any regulation of the Secretary of Commerce upon 
conviction, shall be fined not more than $10,000 or be imprisoned not 
more than one year, or both. In addition the court may prohibit such 
person from whaling for such period of time as it may determine, and may 
order forfeited, in whole or in part, the whales taken by such person in 
whaling during the season, or the whale products derived therefrom or 
the monetary value thereof. Such forfeited whales or whale products 
shall be disposed of in accordance with the direction of the court.

(Aug. 9, 1950, ch. 653, Sec. 8, 64 Stat. 423; 1970 Reorg. Plan No. 4, 
eff. Oct. 3, 1970, 35 F.R. 15627, 84 Stat. 2090.)

                          Transfer of Functions

    Transfer of functions to Secretary of Commerce from Secretary of the 
Interior by Reorg. Plan No. 4 of 1970, see note set out under section 
916 of this title.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 916e of this title.
