---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 668c"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "668c"
heading: "Definitions"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/668c"
units:
  - "Chapter 5A — Protection and Conservation of Wildlife"
  - "Subchapter II — Protection of Bald and Golden Eagles"
---

# §668c. Definitions


As used in this subchapter “whoever” includes also associations, partnerships, and corporations; “[take](/usc/16/668ee.md?p=15)” includes also pursue, shoot, shoot at, poison, wound, kill, capture, trap, collect, molest or disturb; “transport” includes also ship, convey, carry, or transport by any means whatever, and deliver or receive or cause to be delivered or received for such shipment, conveyance, carriage, or transportation.


## Source credit

(June 8, 1940, ch. 278, § 4, 54 Stat. 251; Pub. L. 92–535, § 4, Oct. 23, 1972, 86 Stat. 1065.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1972—Pub. L. 92–535 substituted “poison, wound, kill, capture, trap, collect, molest” for “wound, kill, capture, trap, collect, or otherwise willfully molest”.