[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 50, Volume 7]

[Revised as of October 1, 2005]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 50CFR216.25]



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                    TITLE 50--WILDLIFE AND FISHERIES

 

  CHAPTER II--NATIONAL MARINE FISHERIES SERVICE, NATIONAL OCEANIC AND 

           ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

 

PART 216_REGULATIONS GOVERNING THE TAKING AND IMPORTING OF MARINE MAMMALS

--Table of Contents

 

                      Subpart C_General Exceptions

 

Sec. 216.25  Exempted marine mammals and marine mammal products.



    (a) The provisions of the MMPA and these regulations shall not 

apply:

    (1) To any marine mammal taken before December 21, 1972 \1\, or

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    \1\ In the context of captive maintenance of marine mammals, the 

only marine mammals exempted under this section are those that were 

actually captured or otherwise in captivity before December 21, 1972.

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    (2) To any marine mammal product if the marine mammal portion of 

such product consists solely of a marine mammal taken before such date.

    (b) The prohibitions contained in Sec. 216.12(c) (3) and (4) shall 

not apply to marine mammals or marine mammal products imported into the 

United States before the date on which a notice is published in the 

Federal Register with respect to the designation of the species or stock 

concerned as depleted or endangered.

    (c) Section 216.12(b) shall not apply to articles imported into the 

United States before the effective date of the foreign law making the 

taking or sale, as the case may be, of such marine mammals or marine 

mammal products unlawful.



[39 FR 1852, Jan. 15, 1974, as amended at 56 FR 43888, Sept. 5, 1991; 59 

FR 50376, Oct. 3, 1994]