---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 960"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "960"
heading: "Commissions’ functions not restrained by this chapter or State laws"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/960"
units:
  - "Chapter 16 — Tuna Conventions"
---

# §960. Commissions’ functions not restrained by this chapter or State laws


None of the prohibitions contained in this chapter or in the laws and regulations of the [States](/usc/16/544.md?p=r) shall prevent the [commissions](/usc/16/951.md?p=2) from conducting or authorizing the conduct of fishing operations and biological experiments at any time for the purpose of scientific investigations as authorized by the [conventions](/usc/16/951.md?p=3), or shall prevent the [commissions](/usc/16/951.md?p=2) from discharging any of its or their functions or duties prescribed by the [conventions](/usc/16/951.md?p=3).


## Source credit

(Sept. 7, 1950, ch. 907, § 11, 64 Stat. 779.)