---
kind: "unit"
title: "18"
title_heading: "Crimes and Criminal Procedure"
key: "ptI/ch3"
level: "chapter"
label: "Chapter 3"
heading: "Animals, Birds, Fish, and Plants"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/18/ptI-ch3"
sections_count: 9
---

# Chapter 3 — Animals, Birds, Fish, and Plants

Title 18 — Crimes and Criminal Procedure › Part I — Crimes

## Sections

- [§41. Hunting, fishing, trapping; disturbance or injury on wildlife refuges](/usc/18/41.md)
- [§42. Importation or shipment of injurious mammals, birds, fish (including mollusks and crustacea), amphibia, and reptiles; permits, specimens for museums; regulations](/usc/18/42.md)
- [§43. Force, violence, and threats involving animal enterprises](/usc/18/43.md)
- [§44. Repealed.](/usc/18/44.md)
- [§45. Repealed.](/usc/18/45.md)
- [§46. Repealed.](/usc/18/46.md)
- [§47. Use of aircraft or motor vehicles to hunt certain wild horses or burros; pollution of watering holes](/usc/18/47.md)
- [§48. Animal crushing](/usc/18/48.md)
- [§49. Enforcement of animal fighting prohibitions](/usc/18/49.md)