43 U.S.C. § 1464 — Agents or attorneys representing claimants before department
submitted 142 years ago by ch. 181 to r/title-43-PUBLIC-LANDS · 152 words · no verdicts yet
The Secretary of the Interior may set rules for recognizing people who represent claimants before the Department of the Interior and may require proof of character, reputation, qualifications, and competence. After notice and a hearing opportunity, the Secretary may suspend or exclude a representative who is incompetent, disreputable, violates the rules, or defrauds, deceives, misleads, or threatens a claimant or potential claimant.
The Secretary of the Interior may prescribe rules governing recognition of agents, attorneys, and other people who represent claimants before the Secretary's department. Before recognizing them, the Secretary may require those people to show that they have good moral character, a good reputation, the qualifications needed to give claimants valuable service, and competence to advise and help claimants present their claims.
After notice and an opportunity for a hearing, the Secretary may suspend or exclude from further practice before the department any person, agent, or attorney shown to be incompetent or disreputable, who refuses to follow the rules, or who intends to defraud and in any way deceives, misleads, or threatens a claimant or potential claimant by words, circular, letter, or advertisement.
The Secretary of the Interior may prescribe rules and regulations governing the recognition of agents, attorneys, or other persons representing claimants before his department, and may require of such persons, agents, and attorneys, before being recognized as representatives of claimants, that they shall show that they are of good moral character and in good repute, possessed of the necessary qualifications to enable them to render such claimants valuable service, and otherwise competent to advise and assist such claimants in the presentation of their claims and such Secretary may, after notice and opportunity for a hearing, suspend or exclude from further practice before his department any such person, agent, or attorney shown to be incompetent, disreputable, or who refuses to comply with the said rules and regulations, or who shall with intent to defraud in any manner, deceive, mislead, or threaten any claimant, or prospective claimant, by word, circular, letter, or by advertisement.
Source credit: (July 4, 1884, ch. 181, § 5, 23 Stat. 101.)
- 1884Enacted · Act of July 4, 1884, ch. 181 · 23 Stat. 101
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