---
kind: "section"
citation: "50 C.F.R. § 18.13"
title: "50"
number: "18.13"
heading: "Prohibited uses, possession, transportation, and sales."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/50/18.13"
---

# §18.13. Prohibited uses, possession, transportation, and sales.


Except as otherwise provided in the Act or these regulations, it is unlawful for:

- (a) Any person to use any port, harbor, or other place under the jurisdiction of the United States for any purpose in any way connected with a prohibited taking or any unlawful importation of any marine mammal or marine mammal products;
- (b) Any person to possess any marine mammal, or product therefrom, taken in violation of the Act or these regulations;
- (c) Any person to transport, purchase, sell, or offer to purchase or sell any marine mammal or marine mammal product; or
- (d) Any person subject to the jurisdiction of the United States to use in a commercial fishery, any means or method of fishing in contravention of regulations and limitations issued by the Secretary of Commerce for that fishery to achieve the purposes of this Act.

## Notes

### Amendments

[39 FR 7262, Feb. 25, 1974, as amended at 51 FR 17981, May 16, 1986]

### Authority

Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1361 et seq.

### Source

Source: 39 FR 7262, Feb. 25, 1974, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[39 FR 7262, Feb. 25, 1974, as amended at 51 FR 17981, May 16, 1986]