Sec. 4. DEFINITIONS
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## SEC. 4 DEFINITIONS **[**[16 U.S.C. 5303](/us/usc/t16/s5303)**]** In this Act— ####
(1)“**CITES**” means the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, signed on March 3, 1973, and its appendices; ####
(2)“**conservation**” means the use of all methods and procedures necessary to bring rhinoceros and tigers to the point at which there are sufficient populations to ensure that those species do not become extinct, including all activities associated with scientific resource management, such as research, census, law enforcement, habitat protection, acquisition, and management, propagation, live trapping, and transportation; ####
(3)``Fund'' means the the2 account established by division A, section 101(e), title I of Public Law 105–277 under the heading ``multinational species conservation fund''; 2So in law. Section 6(a)(1) of the Rhinoceros and Tiger Conservation Reauthorization Act of 2001 (P.L. 107–112, 115 Stat. 2097) amended this section by striking ``Rhinoceros and Tiger Conservation Fund established under section 6(a)'' and inserting ``the account established by division A, section 101(e), title I of Public Law 105–277 under the heading `multinational species conservation fund'''. The amendment should probably have struck ``the'' before ``Rhinoceros and Tiger''. ####
(4)“**Secretary**” means the Secretary of the Interior; ####
(5)“**Administrator**” means the Administrator of the Agency for International Development; and ####
(6)“**person**” means— #####
(A)an individual, corporation, partnership, trust, association, or other private entity; #####
(B)an officer, employee, agent, department, or instrumentality of— ######
(i)the Federal Government; ######
(ii)any State, municipality, or political subdivision of a State; or ######
(iii)any foreign government; #####
(C)a State, municipality, or political subdivision of a State; or #####
(D)any other entity subject to the jurisdiction of the United States.
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- Pub. L. 105-277
- 115 Stat. 2097
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