---
kind: "section"
citation: "43 U.S.C. § 1066"
title: "43"
title_heading: "Public Lands"
number: "1066"
heading: "Permission of Secretary to sue"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/43/1066"
units:
  - "Chapter 25 — Unlawful Inclosures or Occupancy; Obstructing Settlement or Transit"
---

# §1066. Permission of Secretary to sue


Where the alleged unlawful inclosure includes less than one hundred and sixty acres of land, no suit shall be brought under the provisions of this chapter without authority from the [Secretary](/usc/43/31b.md?p=7) of the Interior.


## Source credit

(Feb. 25, 1885, ch. 149, § 6, 23 Stat. 322.)