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Title 43 — Public Lands

Chapter 31 — Department of the Interior

§ 1476a. Unsworn written statements subject to penalties of presenting false claims

Statutory text

Unsworn written statements made in public land matters within the jurisdiction of the Department of the Interior shall remain subject to section 1001 of title 18.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

  1. Pub. L. 80–392 § 2 · 62 Stat. 301

    Enacted · 43 U.S.C. § 1476a

    (June 3, 1948, ch. 392, § 2, 62 Stat. 301.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (June 3, 1948, ch. 392, § 2, 62 Stat. 301.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 2. Unsworn written statements made in public land matters Unsworn written statements. within the jurisdiction of the Department of the Interior shall remain subject to section 35 (A) of the Criminal Code (35 Stat. 1095, 18 U. S. C. sec. 80), as amended.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Editorial Notes

Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 1212 of this title prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.

“Section 1001 of title 18” substituted in text for “section 35(A) of the Criminal Code (35 Stat. 1095, 18 U.S.C. sec. 80), as amended” on authority of act June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 683, the first section of which enacted Title 18, Crimes and Criminal Procedure.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Exemption of Department of the Interior From Restrictions on Notary Public

Act June 3, 1948, ch. 392, § 3, 62 Stat. 301, provided: “That part of section 558 of the Act of March 3, 1901, entitled ‘An Act to establish a code of law for the District of Columbia’ (31 Stat. 1279), as amended (58 Stat. 810, D.C. Code, 1951 edition, sec. 1–501 [now sec. 1–1201(a)]), which reads as follows: ‘And provided further, That no notary public shall be authorized to take acknowledgments, administer oaths, certify papers, or perform any official acts in connection with matters in which he is employed as counsel, attorney or agent or in which he may be in any way interested before any of the Departments aforesaid’ shall not apply to matters before the Department of the Interior.”

Credits

(June 3, 1948, ch. 392, § 2, 62 Stat. 301.)

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