18 U.S.C. § 46 : US Code - Section 46: Transportation of water hyacinths

Search 18 U.S.C. § 46 : US Code - 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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