---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 5204"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "5204"
heading: "Relationship to State and local law and civil actions"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/5204"
units:
  - "Chapter 72 — Recreational Hunting Safety"
---

# §5204. Relationship to State and local law and civil actions


This chapter does not preempt a [State](/usc/16/590q.md?p=a) law or local ordinance that provides for civil or criminal penalties for [conduct](/usc/16/5207.md?p=8) that violates this chapter.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXII, § 320805, Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2122.)