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# 7 U.S.C. § 8505 - Treatment of brown tree snakes as nonmailable matter

## Text

A brown tree snake constitutes nonmailable matter under section 3015 of title 39.

(Pub. L. 108–384, § 6, Oct. 30, 2004, 118 Stat. 2224.)