---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 4846"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "4846"
heading: "State laws superseded, and null and void"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/4846"
units:
  - "Chapter 63 — Lead-Based Paint Poisoning Prevention"
  - "Subchapter V — General Provisions"
---

# §4846. State laws superseded, and null and void


It is hereby expressly declared that it is the intent of the Congress to supersede any and all laws of the [States](/usc/42/4841.md?p=1) and [units](/usc/42/1395w–114b.md?p=g-2) of [local government](/usc/42/8401a.md) insofar as they may now or hereafter provide for a requirement, prohibition, or [standard](/usc/42/1320d.md?p=7) relating to the lead content in paints or other similar surface-coating materials which differs from the provisions of this chapter or regulations issued pursuant to this chapter. Any law, regulation, or ordinance purporting to establish such different requirement, prohibition, or [standard](/usc/42/1320d.md?p=7) shall be null and void.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 91–695, title V, § 504, formerly § 506, as added Pub. L. 93–151, § 7(e), Nov. 9, 1973, 87 Stat. 568; renumbered § 504, Pub. L. 95–626, title II, § 208(b), Nov. 10, 1978, 92 Stat. 3588.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

A prior section 504 of Pub. L. 91–695 was classified to section 4844 of this title prior to repeal by Pub. L. 95–626.