“To prohibit any person from using a motor vehicle to take a mammalian predator species on Federal land, and for other purposes.”
No CRS summary available for this bill.
This section prohibits any person from intentionally using a motor vehicle to harass, pursue, hunt, shoot, wound, kill, trap, capture, or collect a mammalian predator species on federal land (i.e., land owned by the United States, excluding tribal trust lands), with penalties of a fine up to $10,000, imprisonment up to five years, or both. An exception applies for conduct to avoid injury or death to oneself or another person. The section directs the Secretary of the Interior to investigate violations, authorizes assistance from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Department of the Treasury, other federal agencies, and state and local authorities, and defines "motor vehicle" (i.e., self-propelled vehicles or those drawn by them, operated on highways, railroads, ground, water, or air) and "mammalian predator" (i.e., as defined by the Secretary).