---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 715h"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "715h"
heading: "Operation of State game laws"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/715h"
units:
  - "Chapter 7 — Protection of Migratory Game and Insectivorous Birds"
  - "Subchapter III — Migratory Bird Conservation"
---

# §715h. Operation of State game laws


Nothing in this subchapter is intended to interfere with the operation of the game laws of the several [States](/usc/16/544.md?p=r) applying to migratory game birds insofar as they do not permit what is forbidden by Federal law.


## Source credit

(Feb. 18, 1929, ch. 257, § 9, 45 Stat. 1224.)