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POLICE STATE!

http://www.fws.gov/le/pdffiles/Lacey.pdf

quoted excerpts follow:

shipment between the continental United States, the District of Columbia, Hawaii, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, or any possession of the United States, of ... species of wild mammals, wild birds, fish (including mollusks and crustacea), amphibians, reptiles, brown tree snakes, or the offspring or eggs of any of the foregoing which the Secretary ... is hereby prohibited.

All such prohibited mammals, birds, fish (including mollusks and crustacea), amphibians, and reptiles, and the eggs or offspring therefrom, shall be promptly exported or destroyed at the expense of the importer or consignee.

(4) Nothing in this subsection shall restrict the importation of dead natural-history specimens for museums or for scientific collections, or the importation of domesticated canaries, parrots (including all other species of psittacine birds), or such other cage birds as the Secretary of the Interior may designate.

(b) Whoever violates this section, or any regulation issued pursuant thereto, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than six months, or both.

http://www.fws.gov/injuriouswildlife...tSheet2010.pdf

quoted excerpts follow:

Under the Lacey Act, importation and interstate
transport of animal species determined to be injurious
may be regulated by the Secretary of the Interior.

Species listed as injurious (including their gametes and
viable eggs) may not be imported into the United States
or transported between the continental United States,
the District of Columbia, Hawaii, the Commonwealth of
Puerto Rico or any territory or possession of the United
States by any means without a permit issued by the
Service.

The penalty for an injurious wildlife Lacey Act violation is
up to six months in prison and a $5,000 fine for an individual
or a $10,000 fine for an organization.

the list:

http://www.fws.gov/fisheries/ANS/pdf..._Listed_IW.pdf

list additions:

https://www.federalregister.gov/arti...s-as-injurious

Reticulated Python (Python reticulatus)
DeSchauensee's Anaconda (Eunectes deschauenseei)
Green Anaconda (Eunectes murinus)
Beni Anaconda (Eunectes beniensis)

.. and withdrawals(s):

We are also withdrawing our proposal to add the boa constrictor (Boa constrictor) to the list of injurious wildlife.

Court Proceedings:

http://usark.org/2015-blog/7109/

May 12, 2015

Press Release at: http://www.usark.org/wp-content/uplo...s-Release1.pdf.

'USARK is pleased to announce the Court ruled in our favor, granting our motion for preliminary injunction. This injunction will suspend the ban on interstate transportation of reticulated pythons and green anacondas under the Lacey Act.'

please share any LACEY corrections, changes, additions, withdrawals, suspensions, rulings?