18 U.S.C. § 42
Importation or shipment of injurious mammals, birds, fish (including mollusks and crustacea), amphibia, and reptiles; permits, specimens for museums; regulations
United States · Title 18 — CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE · Status: effective
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- 18 U.S.C. § 42, Importation or shipment of injurious mammals, birds, fish (including mollusks and crustacea), amphibia, and reptiles; permits, specimens for museums; regulations, United States, version 1 as recorded 2026-07-09, yourstate.us, https://yourstate.us/provision/448674
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The Secretary of the Interior within one hundred and eighty days of the enactment of the Lacey Act Amendments of 1981 shall prescribe such requirements and issue such permits as he may deem necessary for the transportation of wild animals and birds under humane and healthful conditions, and it shall be unlawful for any person, including any importer, knowingly to cause or permit any wild animal or bird to be transported to the United States, or any Territory or district thereof, under inhumane or unhealthful conditions or in violation of such requirements. In any criminal prosecution for violation of this subsection and in any administrative proceeding for the suspension of the issuance of further permits—
Legislative history
The public laws that enacted or amended this section. Tallies are for the whole bill as it passed each chamber — often an omnibus covering far more than this provision — not a vote on this section alone. The law that originally enacted this section predates the public laws loaded here, so only later amendments are listed.
- Lacey Act Amendments of 1981House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- Aquatic Nuisance Prevention and Control Act of 1990House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act Amendments of 1991House: 417–5Senate: no recorded tally
- Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994
- National Invasive Species Act of 1996House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- Asian Carp Prevention and Control ActHouse: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- Frank LoBiondo Coast Guard Authorization Act of 2018House: 239–173Senate: no recorded tally