Sec. 2305. DEFINITIONS
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## SEC. 2305 DEFINITIONS **[**[16 U.S.C. 4244](/us/usc/t16/s4244)**]** In this title— ####
(1)the term “**African elephant**” means any animal of the species loxodonta africana; ####
(2)the term “**CITES**” means the Convention on the International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora; ####
(3)the term “**CITES Ivory Control System**” means the ivory quota and marking system established by CITES to curtail illegal trade in African elephant ivory; ####
(4)the term “**Fund**” means the account established by division A, section 101(e), title I of Public Law 105–277 under the heading “**multinational species conservation fund**”; ####
(5)the terms “**import**” and “**importation**” have the meanings such terms have in the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.); ####
(6)the term “**intermediary country**” means a country that exports raw or worked ivory that does not originate in that country; ####
(7)the term “**ivory producing country**” means any African country within which is located any part of the range of a population of African elephants; ####
(8)the term “**ivory quota**” means a quota submitted by an ivory producing country to the CITES Secretariat in accordance with the CITES Ivory Control System; ####
(9)the term “**personal effects**” means articles which are not intended for sale and are part of a shipment of the household effects of a person who is moving his or her residence to or from the United States, or are included in personal accompanying baggage; ####
(10)the term “**raw ivory**” means any African elephant tusk, and any piece thereof, the surface of which, polished or unpolished, is unaltered or minimally carved; ####
(11)the term “**Secretary**” means the Secretary of the Interior; ####
(12)the term “**United States**” means the fifty States, the District of Columbia, Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and the territories and possessions of the United States; and ####
(13)the term “**worked ivory**” means any African elephant tusk, and any piece thereof, which is not raw ivory.
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- Pub. L. 105-277
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