---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 47–6"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "47–6"
heading: "Conflicts of interest prohibited"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/47-6"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter VI — Sequoia and Yosemite National Parks"
---

# §47–6. Conflicts of interest prohibited


In carrying out the provisions of sections [47–2](/usc/16/47–2.md) to 47–6 of this title, the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) shall [take](/usc/16/3102.md?p=18) care that there be no opportunity for any personal influence by an employee of the Department of the Interior upon the availability of housing for other such employees or employees of [persons](/usc/16/450rr–1.md?p=b) in a contractual relationship with the Department. In the selection of lessees and sublessees, the issuance of leases and subleases, the establishment or[^1] rental values, and the [acquisition](/usc/16/620e.md?p=1) of any unexpired term of any lease or sublease, the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) shall act through an agent or agents appointed by the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) from among associations, corporations, or natural [persons](/usc/16/450rr–1.md?p=b) having no material, financial, legal, or equitable interest in the action proposed, other than a reasonable fee for their services.


## Footnotes

[^1]: So in original. Probably should be “of”.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 90–409, § 5, as added Pub. L. 99–542, § 1(5), Oct. 27, 1986, 100 Stat. 3038.)