---
kind: "section"
citation: "50 C.F.R. § 23.24"
title: "50"
number: "23.24"
heading: "What code is used to show the source of the specimen?"
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/50/23.24"
---

# §23.24. What code is used to show the source of the specimen?


The Management Authority must indicate on the CITES document the source of the specimen using one of the following codes, except the code “O” for pre-Convention, which may be used in conjunction with another code:


## Notes

### Amendments

[72 FR 48448, Aug. 23, 2007, as amended at 79 FR 30423, May 27, 2014; 87 FR 10080, Feb. 23, 2022]

### Authority

Authority: Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (March 3, 1973), 27 U.S.T. 1087; and Endangered Species Act of 1973, as amended, 16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.

### Source

Source: 72 FR 48448, Aug. 23, 2007, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[72 FR 48448, Aug. 23, 2007, as amended at 79 FR 30423, May 27, 2014; 87 FR 10080, Feb. 23, 2022]