---
kind: "section"
citation: "43 U.S.C. § 1462"
title: "43"
title_heading: "Public Lands"
number: "1462"
heading: "Attestation of copies by official seal"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/43/1462"
units:
  - "Chapter 31 — Department of the Interior"
---

# §1462. Attestation of copies by official seal


All officers who furnish authenticated copies under [section 1460 of this title](/usc/43/1460.md) shall attest their authentication by the use of an official seal, which is authorized for that purpose.


## Source credit

(Aug. 24, 1912, ch. 370, § 4, 37 Stat. 498.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 491 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.