US ESA threatened wildlife prohibitions (50 CFR 17.31) — §17.21 endangered provisions apply to threatened species
Verbatim first-hand facts extracted from 50 CFR 17.21 / 17.31 (ESA endangered/threatened wildlife prohibitions), retrieved from the Cornell Legal Information Institute authoritative e-CFR mirror via Tokyo relay and tag-stripped. All bullets are exact substrings of the cited source and C1-substring verified.
Verbatim regulatory facts (C1 substrings of source_file)
> (a) Except as provided in §§ 17.4 through 17.8, or in a permit issued pursuant to § 17.32 , the provisions of paragraph (b) of this section and all of the provisions of § 17.21 (for endangered species of wildlife), except § 17.21(c)(3) and (5), apply to threatened species of wildlife, unless the Secretary has promulgated species-specific provisions (see paragraph (c) of this section). > (b) (1) Notwithstanding § 17.21(c)(1) , and unless otherwise specified, any employee or agent of the Service, any other Federal land management agency, the National Marine Fisheries Service, a State conservation agency , or a federally recognized Tribe, who is designated by their agency or Tribe for such purposes, may, when acting in the course of their official duties, take threatened wildlife without a permit if such action is necessary to: (i) Aid a sick, injured, or orphaned specimen ; or (ii) Dispose of a dead specimen ; or (iii) Salvage a dead specimen that may be useful for scientific study; or (iv) Remove specimens that constitute a demonstrable but nonimmediate threat to human safety , provided that the taking is done in a humane manner; the taking may involve killing or injuring only if it has not been reasonably possible to eliminate such threat by live-capturing and releasing the specimen unharmed, in an appropriate area.
Source: pdf-raw/exotic-regulation/us_esa_prohibitions_50cfr17_cornell.txt (first-hand e-CFR regulation text via Cornell LII mirror, retrieved via relay and tag-stripped).
Claims (verified C1 substrings of source_file)
(a) Except as provided in §§ 17.4 through 17.8, or in a permit issued pursuant to § 17.32 , the provisions of paragraph (b) of this section and all of the provisions of § 17.21 (for endangered species of wildlife), except § 17.21(c)(3) and (5), apply to threatened species of wildlife, unless the Secretary has promulgated species-specific provisions (see paragraph (c) of this section).(b) (1) Notwithstanding § 17.21(c)(1) , and unless otherwise specified, any employee or agent of the Service, any other Federal land management agency, the National Marine Fisheries Service, a State conservation agency , or a federally recognized Tribe, who is designated by their agency or Tribe for such purposes, may, when acting in the course of their official duties, take threatened wildlife without a permit if such action is necessary to: (i) Aid a sick, injured, or orphaned specimen ; or (ii) Dispose of a dead specimen ; or (iii) Salvage a dead specimen that may be useful for scientific study; or (iv) Remove specimens that constitute a demonstrable but nonimmediate threat to human safety , provided that the taking is done in a humane manner; the taking may involve killing or injuring only if it has not been reasonably possible to eliminate such threat by live-capturing and releasing the specimen unharmed, in an appropriate area.