---
kind: "section"
citation: "4 U.S.C. § 41"
title: "4"
title_heading: "Flag and Seal, Seat of Government, and the States"
number: "41"
heading: "Seal of the United States"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/4/41"
units:
  - "Chapter 2 — The Seal"
---

# §41. Seal of the United States


The seal heretofore used by the United States in Congress assembled is declared to be the seal of the United States.


## Source credit

(July 30, 1947, ch. 389, 61 Stat. 643.)