---
kind: "section"
citation: "28 U.S.C. § 3006"
title: "28"
title_heading: "Judiciary and Judicial Procedure"
number: "3006"
heading: "Affidavit requirements"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/28/3006"
units:
  - "Part VI — Particular Proceedings"
  - "Chapter 176 — Federal Debt Collection Procedure"
  - "Subchapter A — Definitions and General Provisions"
---

# §3006. Affidavit requirements


Any affidavit required of the [United States](/usc/28/3002.md?p=15) by this chapter may be made on information and belief, if reliable and reasonably necessary, establishing with particularity, to the [court](/usc/28/3002.md?p=2)’s satisfaction, facts supporting the claim of the [United States](/usc/28/3002.md?p=15).


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 101–647, title XXXVI, § 3611, Nov. 29, 1990, 104 Stat. 4936.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective 180 days after Nov. 29, 1990, and applicable with respect to certain actions for debts owed the United States pending in court on that effective date, see section 3631 of Pub. L. 101–647, set out as a note under section 3001 of this title.