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| | The Lacey Act: America's Premier Weapon |
 | | Lacey Act violations under subsections invoking the one-year maximum penalty are now classified as Class A misdemeanors, carrying a maximum penalty of one year incarceration and maximum fines of $100,000 for individual violators and $200,000 for organizational violators. |
 | | The Lacey Act authorizes the forfeiture of fish, wildlife, or plants that are imported, exported, transported, sold, received, acquired, or purchased contrary to the trafficking or fraudulent marking provisions of section 3372, or any regulation issued pursuant to those parts of the statute. |
 | | Although the Act requires a showing that wildlife was taken in violation of state law, thereby incorporating the substantive elements of state law, "it is not designed to incorporate state procedural law." [FN403] The federal code provides a "catch-all" criminal statute of limitations, applicable to statutes like the Lacey Act that lack their own. |
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