Laws: Cases and Codes : U.S. Code : Title 18 : Section 46


   
U.S. Code as of: 01/19/04
Section 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.



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