                 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''.
