# Regulations To Implement the Captive Wildlife Safety Act
> **US Department of the Interior** · Final rule. · Published 2007-08-16 · Effective 2007-09-17 · 72 FR 45938
## Document
- **Document number:** E7-16085
- **Category:** other
- **Sub-agency:** US Department of the Interior
- **Federal Register citation:** 72 FR 45938
- **CFR reference:** 50 CFR 14
- **Publication date:** 2007-08-16
- **Effective date:** 2007-09-17
## Abstract

We, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, are implementing the Captive Wildlife Safety Act (CWSA) in a new subpart K of part 14, Importation, Exportation, and Transportation of Wildlife, in Title 50 of the Code of Federal Regulations. The CWSA amends the Lacey Act by making it illegal to import, export, transport, sell, receive, acquire, or purchase, in interstate or foreign commerce, live lions, tigers, leopards, snow leopards, clouded leopards, cheetahs, jaguars, or cougars, or any hybrid combination of any of these species, unless certain exceptions are met.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2007/08/16/E7-16085/regulations-to-implement-the-captive-wildlife-safety-act)
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