Endangered Species Act of 1973
AN ACT To provide for the conservation of endangered and threatened species of fish, wildlife, and plants, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That this Act may be cited as the ‘‘Endangered Species Act of 1973’’.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
- Sec. 2. Findings, purposes, and policy.
- Sec. 3. Definitions.
- Sec. 4. Determination of endangered species and threatened species.
- Sec. 5. Land acquisition.
- Sec. 6. Cooperation with the States.
- Sec. 7. Interagency cooperation.
- Sec. 8. International cooperation.
- Sec. 8A. Convention implementation.
- Sec. 9. Prohibited acts.
- Sec. 10. Exceptions.
- Sec. 11. Penalties and enforcement.
- Sec. 12. Endangered plants.
- Sec. 13. Conforming amendments.
- Sec. 14. Repealer.
- Sec. 15. Authorization of appropriations.
- Sec. 16. Effective date.
- Sec. 17. Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972.
- [Sec. 18. Annual cost analysis by the Fish and Wildlife Service.]*
As amended by P.L. 94–325, June 30, 1976; P.L. 94–359, July 12, 1976; P.L. 95–212, December 19, 1977; P.L. 95–632, November 10, 1978; P.L. 96–159, December 28, 1979; 97–304, October 13, 1982; P.L. 98–327, June 25, 1984; and P.L. 100–478, October 7, 1988; P.L. 100–653, November 14, 1988; and P.L. 100–707, November 23, 1988.
* Bracketed material does not appear in Act. Sec. 1012 of P.L. 100–478, 102 Stat. 2314, October 7, 1988, added sec. 18 of the Act but did not conform the table of contents of the Act.
The text of the U.S. Endangered Species Act copied almost verbatim from this copy maintained by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, except in cases of removing line-flow hyphens and minor typographical errors.