Section 1 Short title
This Act may be cited as the “Snowmobiles Aren’t Weapons Act” or the “SAW Act”.
Snowmobiles Aren’t Weapons Act
A BILL
To prohibit any person from using a motor vehicle to take a mammalian predator species on Federal land, and for other purposes.
Sec. 2 Prohibiting use of a motor vehicle to intentionally take a mammalian predator species on Federal land
Prohibition— Except as provided in subsection (b), any person who intentionally uses a motor vehicle to harass, pursue, hunt, shoot, wound, kill, trap, capture, or collect a mammalian predator species on Federal land shall be fined not more than $10,000, imprisoned not more than 5 years, or both.
Exceptions— A violation of subsection (a) has not occurred if a person engaged in conduct prohibited by subsection (a) to avoid injury or death to themselves or another person.
Investigation of violations— The Secretary of the Interior, or a person authorized by the Secretary—
shall make such investigations as the Secretary deems necessary to determine whether any person has violated or is violating this Act; and
when conducting an investigation under this subsection—
may obtain assistance from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Department of the Treasury, and such other Federal agency as the Secretary determines appropriate; and
may request and accept the assistance of State and local law enforcement and governmental agencies.
Definitions— In this Act—
the term “Federal land” means land owned by the United States, except land with respect to which title is held in trust by the United States for the benefit of an American Indian Tribe or an individual American Indian;
the term “motor vehicle” means a self-propelled vehicle or a vehicle propelled or drawn by a self-propelled vehicle that is operated on a highway, on a railroad track, on the ground, in the water, or in the air; and
the term “mammalian predator” has the meaning given such term by the Secretary of the Interior.