---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 4242"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "4242"
heading: "Certification under Pelly amendment"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/4242"
units:
  - "Chapter 62 — African Elephant Conservation"
  - "Subchapter III — Miscellaneous"
---

# §4242. Certification under Pelly amendment


If the [Secretary](/usc/16/4244.md?p=11) finds in administering this chapter that a country does not adhere to the [CITES Ivory Control System](/usc/16/4244.md?p=3), that country is deemed, for purposes of [section 1978(a)(2) of title 22](/usc/22/1978.md?p=a-2), to be diminishing the effectiveness of an international program for endangered or threatened species.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 100–478, title II, § 2303, Oct. 7, 1988, 102 Stat. 2322.)