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title_number: 16
title_name: "CONSERVATION"
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chapter_name: "PROTECTION OF MIGRATORY GAME AND INSECTIVOROUS BIRDS"
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# 16 U.S.C. § 715 - Short title

## Text

This subchapter shall be known by the short title of “Migratory Bird Conservation Act.”

(Feb. 18, 1929, ch. 257, § 1, 45 Stat. 1222.)

## Notes

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Short Title of 1976 AmendmentPub. L. 94–215, § 1, Feb 17, 1976, 90 Stat. 189, provided: “That this Act [amending sections 668dd, 715a, 715k–3, 715k–5, 718a, 718b, and 718d of this title] may be cited as the ‘Wetlands Loan Extension Act of 1976’.”