19 U.S.C. § 1527

Importation of wild mammals and birds in violation of foreign law

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(a) Importation prohibited

If the laws or regulations of any country, dependency, province, or other subdivision of government restrict the taking, killing, possession, or exportation to the United States, of any wild mammal or bird, alive or dead, or restrict the exportation to the United States of any part or product of any wild mammal or bird, whether raw or manufactured, no such mammal or bird, or part or product thereof, shall, after the expiration of ninety days after June 17, 1930, be imported into the United States from such country, dependency, province, or other subdivision of government, directly or indirectly, unless accompanied by a certification of the United States consul, for the consular district in which is located the port or place from which such mammal or bird, or part or product thereof, was exported from such country, dependency, province, or other subdivision of government, that such mammal or bird, or part or product thereof, has not been acquired or exported in violation of the laws or regulations of such country, dependency, province, or other subdivision of government.

(b) Forfeiture

Any mammal or bird, alive or dead, or any part or product thereof, whether raw or manufactured, imported into the United States in violation of the provisions of the preceding subdivision shall be subject to seizure and forfeiture under the customs laws. Any such article so forfeited may, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Treasury and under such regulations as he may prescribe, be placed with the departments or bureaus of the Federal or State Governments, or with societies or museums, for exhibition or scientific or educational purposes, or destroyed, or (except in the case of heads or horns of wild mammals) sold in the manner provided by law.

(c) Section not to apply in certain casesThe provisions of this section shall not apply in the case of—(1) Prohibited importations

Articles the importation of which is prohibited under the provisions of this chapter, or of section 42(a) of title 18, or of any other law;

(2) Scientific or educational purposes

Wild mammals or birds, alive or dead, or parts or products thereof, whether raw or manufactured, imported for scientific or educational purposes;

(3) Certain migratory game birds

Migratory game birds (for which an open season is provided by the laws of the United States and any foreign country which is a party to a treaty with the United States, in effect on the date of importation, relating to the protection of such migratory game birds) brought into the United States by bona fide sportsmen returning from hunting trips in such country, if at the time of importation the possession of such birds is not prohibited by the laws of such country or of the United States.

(June 17, 1930, ch. 497, title IV, § 527, 46 Stat. 741.)Editorial NotesCodification

In subsec. (c)(1), “section 42(a) of title 18” substituted for “section 241 of the Criminal Code [18 U.S.C. 391]” on authority of act June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 683, the first section of which enacted Title 18, Crimes and Criminal Procedure.

Notes of Decisions

Cited in 3 cases, 1982–1992 · leading case: United States v. Fifty-Three (53) Eclectus Parrots, & George E. Allen, Claimant-Appellant, 685 F.2d 1131 (9th Cir. 1982).

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United States v. Fifty-Three (53) Eclectus Parrots, & George E. Allen, Claimant-Appellant, 685 F.2d 1131 (9th Cir. 1982). · cites it 8× “Importation of protected wild birds without such accompanying documentation is proscribed by 19 U.S.C. § 1527 (1976). 1 The government therefore instituted this in rem forfeiture action under 19 U.”

United States v. United States Currency in the Amount of One Hundred Forty-Five Thousand, One Hundred Thirty-Nine Dollars, 803 F. Supp. 592 (E.D.N.Y 1992). “§ 2513 (electronic surveillance devices); 19 U.S.C. § 1527 (wild mammals and birds); 21 U.”

United States v. 3,210 Crusted Sides of Caiman Crocodilus Yacare, 636 F. Supp. 1281 (S.D. Fla. 1986). “1982) (provisions of the Tariff Act of 1930, 19 U.S.C. § 1527 (b) “prescribes forfeiture without regard to the presence or absence of culpability of the owner of birds illegally imported.”

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