§ 46. — Transportation of water hyacinths.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 18USC46]
TITLE 18--CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
PART I--CRIMES
CHAPTER 3--ANIMALS, BIRDS, FISH, AND PLANTS
Sec. 46. Transportation of water hyacinths
(a) Whoever knowingly delivers or receives for transportation, or
transports, in interstate commerce, alligator grass (alternanthera
philoxeroides), or water chestnut plants (trapa natans) or water
hyacinth plants (eichhornia crassipes) or the seeds of such grass or
plants; or
(b) Whoever knowingly sells, purchases, barters, exchanges, gives,
or receives any grass, plant, or seed which has been transported in
violation of subsection (a); or
(c) Whoever knowingly delivers or receives for transportation, or
transports, in interstate commerce, an advertisement, to sell, purchase,
barter, exchange, give, or receive alligator grass or water chestnut
plants or water hyacinth plants or the seeds of such grass or plants--
Shall be fined under this title, or imprisoned not more than six
months, or both.
(Added Aug. 1, 1956, ch. 825, Sec. 1, 70 Stat. 797; amended Pub. L. 103-
322, title XXXIII, Sec. 330016(1)(G), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2147.)
Amendments
1994--Pub. L. 103-322 substituted ``fined under this title'' for
``fined not more than $500''.
