§ 17.7 Raptor exemption.
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Title 50 CFR: Wildlife and Fisheries › Chapter I: UNITED STATES FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR › Part 17: ENDANGERED AND THREATENED WILDLIFE AND PLANTS › Subpart A: Introduction and General Provisions › § 17.7: § 17.7 Raptor exemption.
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(a) The prohibitions found in §§ 17.21 and 17.31 do not apply to any raptor [a live migratory bird of the Order
Falconiformes
or the Order
Strigiformes,
other than a bald eagle (
Haliaeetus leucocephalus
) or a golden eagle (
Aquila chrysaetos
)] legally held in captivity or in a controlled environment on November 10, 1978, or to any of its progeny, which is:
(1) Possessed and banded in compliance with the terms of a valid permit issued under part 21 of this chapter; and
(2) Identified in the earliest applicable annual report required to be filed by a permittee under part 21 of this chapter as in a permittee's possession on November 10, 1978, or as the progeny of such a raptor.
(b) This section does not apply to any raptor intentionally returned to the wild.
[48 FR 31607, July 8, 1983]
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