---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 721"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "721"
heading: "Short title; “person” defined"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/721"
units:
  - "Chapter 8 — Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife and Fish Refuge"
---

# §721. Short title; “person” defined


This chapter may be cited as “The Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife and Fish Refuge Act.” The term “[person](/usc/16/450rr–1.md?p=b)” as used therein includes an individual, partnership, association, or corporation.


## Source credit

(June 7, 1924, ch. 346, §§ 1, 12, 43 Stat. 650, 652; Pub. L. 105–312, title II, § 202(b), Oct. 30, 1998, 112 Stat. 2957.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section is a combination provision, the first sentence being derived from section 1 and the last from section 12, of act June 7, 1924.

### Amendments

1998—Pub. L. 105–312 substituted “National Wildlife” for “Wild Life”.