---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 718c"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "718c"
heading: "Authorization and exemption"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/718c"
units:
  - "Chapter 7 — Protection of Migratory Game and Insectivorous Birds"
  - "Subchapter IV — Hunting and Conservation Stamp Tax"
---

# §718c. Authorization and exemption


Nothing in this subchapter shall be construed to authorize any [person](/usc/16/450rr–1.md?p=b) to [take](/usc/16/718j.md?p=b-5) any [migratory waterfowl](/usc/16/718j.md?p=b-2) otherwise than in accordance with regulations adopted and approved pursuant to any treaty or convention heretofore or hereafter entered into between the United States and any other country for the protection of migratory birds, nor to exempt any [person](/usc/16/450rr–1.md?p=b) from complying with the game laws of the several [States](/usc/16/544.md?p=r).


## Source credit

(Mar. 16, 1934, ch. 71, § 3, 48 Stat. 451; Pub. L. 95–616, § 7(b), Nov. 8, 1978, 92 Stat. 3114; Pub. L. 109–266, § 10(d), Aug. 3, 2006, 120 Stat. 675.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2006—Pub. L. 109–266 inserted section catchline.

1978—Pub. L. 95–616 inserted “or convention” after “treaty”.