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[CITE: 16USC931]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
                   CHAPTER 15A--GREAT LAKES FISHERIES
 
Sec. 931. Definitions

    As used in this chapter, the term--
    (a) ``Convention'' means the Convention on Great Lakes Fisheries 
between the United States of America and Canada signed at Washington, 
September 10, 1954;
    (b) ``Commission'' means the Great Lakes Fishery Commission provided 
for by article II of the convention;
    (c) ``United States Section'' means the United States Commissioners 
on the Commission;
    (d) ``Great Lakes State'' means any of the following States: 
Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, or 
Wisconsin;
    (e) ``Great Lakes'' means any of the following bodies of water: Lake 
Ontario (including the Saint Lawrence River from Lake Ontario to the 
forty-fifth parallel of latitude), Lake Erie, Lake Huron (including Lake 
Saint Clair), Lake Michigan, or Lake Superior.

(June 4, 1956, ch. 358, Sec. 2, 70 Stat. 242.)


                               Short Title

    Section 1 of act June 4, 1956, provided: ``That this Act [enacting 
this chapter] may be cited as the `Great Lakes Fishery Act of 1956'.''


                              Separability

    Section 14 of act June 4, 1956, provided that: ``If any provision of 
this Act [this chapter] or the application of such provision to any 
circumstances or persons shall be held invalid, the validity of the 
remainder of the Act and the applicability of such provision to other 
circumstances or persons shall not be affected thereby''.
