16 USC § 668c - Definitions

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identifier: "/us/usc/t16/s668c"
source: "usc"
legal_status: "official_prima_facie"
title: "16 USC § 668c - Definitions"
title_number: 16
title_name: "CONSERVATION"
section_number: "668c"
section_name: "Definitions"
chapter_number: 5
chapter_name: "PROTECTION AND CONSERVATION OF WILDLIFE"
subchapter_number: "II"
subchapter_name: "PROTECTION OF BALD AND GOLDEN EAGLES"
positive_law: false
currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-04-17"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
source_credit: "(June 8, 1940, ch. 278, § 4, 54 Stat. 251; Pub. L. 92–535, § 4, Oct. 23, 1972, 86 Stat. 1065.)"
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# § 668c. Definitions

As used in this subchapter “whoever” includes also associations, partnerships, and corporations; “take” includes also pursue, shoot, shoot at, poison, wound, kill, capture, trap, collect, molest or disturb; “transport” includes also ship, convey, carry, or transport by any means whatever, and deliver or receive or cause to be delivered or received for such shipment, conveyance, carriage, or transportation.

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**Source Credit**: (June 8, 1940, ch. 278, § 4, 54 Stat. 251; Pub. L. 92–535, § 4, Oct. 23, 1972, 86 Stat. 1065.)

## Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1972— substituted “poison, wound, kill, capture, trap, collect, molest” for “wound, kill, capture, trap, collect, or otherwise willfully molest”.