Title 43 — Public LandsRelease 119-73not60
§1464 Agents or Attorneys Representing Claimants Before Department
Title 43 › Chapter 31— DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR › § 1464
Summary
The Secretary of the Interior can make rules about who may represent people filing claims with the department. Before someone is allowed to help claimants, the department can require proof they are honest, respected, and qualified to assist, and, after notice and a hearing, can suspend or bar anyone who is incompetent, disreputable, refuses to follow the rules, or who intentionally cheats, deceives, misleads, or threatens claimants by speech, circulars, letters, or advertisements.
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Title 43, §1464
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The Secretary of the Interior may prescribe rules and regulations governing the recognition of agents, attorneys, or other persons representing claimants before his department, and may require of such persons, agents, and attorneys, before being recognized as representatives of claimants, that they shall show that they are of good moral character and in good repute, possessed of the necessary qualifications to enable them to render such claimants valuable service, and otherwise competent to advise and assist such claimants in the presentation of their claims and such Secretary may, after notice and opportunity for a hearing, suspend or exclude from further practice before his department any such person, agent, or attorney shown to be incompetent, disreputable, or who refuses to comply with the said rules and regulations, or who shall with intent to defraud in any manner, deceive, mislead, or threaten any claimant, or prospective claimant, by word, circular, letter, or by advertisement.
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Editorial Notes
Codification Section was formerly classified to section 493 of Title 5 prior to the general revision and enactment of Title 5, Government Organization and Employees, by Pub. L. 89–554, § 1, Sept. 6, 1966, 80 Stat. 378.
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of other officers, employees, and agencies of Department of the Interior, with certain exceptions, to Secretary of the Interior, with power to delegate, see Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1950, §§ 1, 2, eff. May 24, 1950, 15 F.R. 3174, 64 Stat. 1262, set out under section 1451 of this title.
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43 U.S.C. § 1464
Title 43 — Public Lands
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Apr 5, 2026
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