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[CITE: 28USC1746]

 
               TITLE 28--JUDICIARY AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURE
 
                            PART V--PROCEDURE
 
                   CHAPTER 115--EVIDENCE; DOCUMENTARY
 
Sec. 1746. Unsworn declarations under penalty of perjury

    Wherever, under any law of the United States or under any rule, 
regulation, order, or requirement made pursuant to law, any matter is 
required or permitted to be supported, evidenced, established, or proved 
by the sworn declaration, verification, certificate, statement, oath, or 
affidavit, in writing of the person making the same (other than a 
deposition, or an oath of office, or an oath required to be taken before 
a specified official other than a notary public), such matter may, with 
like force and effect, be supported, evidenced, established, or proved 
by the unsworn declaration, certificate, verification, or statement, in 
writing of such person which is subscribed by him, as true under penalty 
of perjury, and dated, in substantially the following form:
    (1) If executed without the United States: ``I declare (or certify, 
verify, or state) under penalty of perjury under the laws of the United 
States of America that the foregoing is true and correct. Executed on 
(date).
                                                          (Signature)''.
    (2) If executed within the United States, its territories, 
possessions, or commonwealths: ``I declare (or certify, verify, or 
state) under penalty of perjury that the foregoing is true and correct. 
Executed on (date).
                                                          (Signature)''.

(Added Pub. L. 94-550, Sec. 1(a), Oct. 18, 1976, 90 Stat. 2534.)


                            Prior Provisions

    A prior section 1746 was renumbered section 1745 of this title.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in title 8 sections 1183a, 1225, 1357; 
title 10 section 931; title 18 sections 152, 1546, 1621, 1623; title 25 
section 399.