---
kind: "section"
citation: "43 U.S.C. § 1476"
title: "43"
title_heading: "Public Lands"
number: "1476"
heading: "Elimination of oaths for written statements; discretion of Secretary of the Interior"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/43/1476"
units:
  - "Chapter 31 — Department of the Interior"
---

# §1476. Elimination of oaths for written statements; discretion of Secretary of the Interior


Written statement in [public land](/usc/43/1748c.md?p=a-3) matters within the jurisdiction of the Department of the Interior, heretofore required by law to be made under oath, need no longer be made under oath unless the [Secretary](/usc/43/31b.md?p=7) of the Interior shall, in his discretion, so require.


## Source credit

(June 3, 1948, ch. 392, § 1, 62 Stat. 301.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 1211 of this title prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.