Laws & Regulations

Federal

• Presidential Executive Order 13112 - 1999
• Executive Order - Safeguarding the Nation from the Impacts of Invasive Species - 2016
• Lacey Act of 1900; Lacey Act Amendments of 1981
• Further federal regulations
• Current legislative action in Congress

State

• 2009 Invasive Species amendment to the Code of Virginia (20kb PDF)
• Virginia Noxious Weed Law, §§ 3.2-800 through 3.2-809
• Virginia Nonindigenous Aquatic Nuisance Species Act, § 29.1-571-577 of the Code of Virginia (1950) as amended
• Ballast water discharge reporting, Virginia Marine Resources Commission
• Collecting, Exhibiting & Releasing Wildlife: A Guide to the Laws, Regulations and Permits, Dept. of Game & Inland Fisheries
• Possession, importation, sale, etc., of wild animals, VAC 4VAC15-30-10