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# 18 U.S.C. § 46 - Repealed. Pub. L. 116–260, div. O, title X, § 1002(1), Dec. 27, 2020, 134 Stat. 2155]

## Notes

Section, added Aug. 1, 1956, ch. 825, § 1, 70 Stat. 797; amended Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXIII, § 330016(1)(G), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2147, penalized the transportation of alligator grass, water chestnut plants, and water hyacinth plants.