---
kind: "section"
citation: "18 U.S.C. § 46"
title: "18"
title_heading: "Crimes and Criminal Procedure"
number: "46"
heading: "Repealed. Pub. L. 116–260, div. O, title X, § 1002(1), Dec. 27, 2020, 134 Stat. 2155"
status: "repealed"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/18/46"
units:
  - "Part I — Crimes"
  - "Chapter 3 — Animals, Birds, Fish, and Plants"
---

# [§46. Repealed. Pub. L. 116–260, div. O, title X, § 1002(1), Dec. 27, 2020, 134 Stat. 2155 — repealed]



## 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.