---
kind: "section"
citation: "18 U.S.C. § 848"
title: "18"
title_heading: "Crimes and Criminal Procedure"
number: "848"
heading: "Effect on State law"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/18/848"
units:
  - "Part I — Crimes"
  - "Chapter 40 — Importation, Manufacture, Distribution and Storage of Explosive Materials"
---

# §848. Effect on State law


No provision of this chapter shall be construed as indicating an intent on the part of the Congress to occupy the field in which such provision operates to the exclusion of the law of any [State](/usc/18/31.md?p=a-9) on the same subject matter, unless there is a direct and positive conflict between such provision and the law of the [State](/usc/18/31.md?p=a-9) so that the two cannot be reconciled or consistently stand together.


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 91–452, title XI, § 1102(a), Oct. 15, 1970, 84 Stat. 959.)