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11 U.S.C. § 556 — Contractual right to liquidate, terminate, or accelerate a commodities contract or forward contract
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The contractual right of a commodity broker, financial participant, or forward contract merchant to cause the liquidation, termination, or acceleration of a commodity contract, as defined in [section 761 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title11-section761&num=0&edition=prelim), or forward contract because of a condition of the kind specified in [section 365(e)(1) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title11-section365/e/1&num=0&edition=prelim), and the right to a variation or maintenance margin payment received from a trustee with respect to open commodity contracts or forward contracts, shall not be stayed, avoided, or otherwise limited by operation of any provision of this title or by the order of a court in any proceeding under this title. As used in this section, the term “contractual right” includes a right set forth in a rule or bylaw of a derivatives clearing organization (as defined in the Commodity Exchange Act), a multilateral clearing organization (as defined in the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Improvement Act of 1991), a national securities exchange, a national securities association, a securities clearing agency, a contract market designated under the Commodity Exchange Act, a derivatives transaction execution facility registered under the Commodity Exchange Act, or a board of trade (as defined in the Commodity Exchange Act) or in a resolution of the governing board thereof and a right, whether or not evidenced in writing, arising under common law, under law merchant or by reason of normal business practice.
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The contractual right of a commodity broker, financial participant, or forward contract merchant to cause the liquidation, termination, or acceleration of a commodity contract, as defined in [section 761 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title11-section761&num=0&edition=prelim), or forward contract because of a condition of the kind specified in [section 365(e)(1) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title11-section365/e/1&num=0&edition=prelim), and the right to a variation or maintenance margin payment received from a trustee with respect to open commodity contracts or forward contracts, shall not be stayed, avoided, or otherwise limited by operation of any provision of this title or by the order of a court in any proceeding under this title. As used in this section, the term “contractual right” includes a right set forth in a rule or bylaw of a derivatives clearing organization (as defined in the Commodity Exchange Act), a multilateral clearing organization (as defined in the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Improvement Act of 1991), a national securities exchange, a national securities association, a securities clearing agency, a contract market designated under the Commodity Exchange Act, a derivatives transaction execution facility registered under the Commodity Exchange Act, or a board of trade (as defined in the Commodity Exchange Act) or in a resolution of the governing board thereof and a right, whether or not evidenced in writing, arising under common law, under law merchant or by reason of normal business practice.
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This chapter may be cited as the “Commodity Exchange Act.”
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In this title the following definitions shall apply:
(1) The term “accountant” means accountant authorized under applicable law to practice public accounting, and includes professional accounting association, corporation, or partnership, if so authorized.
(2) The term “affiliate” means—
(A) entity that directly or indirectly owns, controls, or holds with power to vote, 20 percent or more of the outstanding voting securities of the debtor, other than an entity that holds such securities—
(i) in a fiduciary or agency capacity without sole discretionary power to vote such securities; or
(ii) solely to secure a debt, if such entity has not in fact exercised such power to vote;
(B) corporation 20 percent or more of whose outstanding voting securities are directly or indirectly owned, controlled, or held with power to vote, by the debtor, or by an entity that directly or indirectly owns, controls, or holds with power to vote, 20 percent or more of the outstanding voting securities of the debtor, other than an entity that holds such securities—
(i) in a fiduciary or agency capacity without sole discretionary power to vote such securities; or
(ii) solely to secure a debt, if such entity has not in fact exercised such power to vote;
(C) person whose business is operated under a lease or operating agreement by a debtor, or person substantially all of whose property is operated under an operating agreement with the debtor; or
(D) entity that operates the business or substantially all of the property of the debtor under a lease or operating agreement.
(3) The term “assisted person” means any person whose debts consist primarily of consumer debts and the value of whose nonexempt property is less than $150,000.11 See Adjustment of Dollar Amounts not
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**(a) Establishment of Corporation** There is hereby established a Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (hereinafter referred to as the “Corporation”) which shall insure, as hereinafter provided, the deposits of all banks and savings associations which are entitled to the benefits of insurance under this chapter, and which shall have the powers hereinafter granted.
**(b) Asset disposition division**
(1) **Establishment** — The Corporation shall have a separate division of asset disposition.
(2) **Management** — The division of asset disposition shall have an administrator who shall be appointed by the Board of Directors.
(3) **Responsibilities of division** — The division of asset disposition shall carry out all of the responsibilities of the Corporation under this chapter relating to the liquidation of insured depository institutions and the disposition of assets of such institutions.
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In this subchapter—
(1) “Act” means Commodity Exchange Act;
(2) “clearing organization” means a derivatives clearing organization registered under the Act;
(3) “Commission” means Commodity Futures Trading Commission;
(4) “commodity contract” means—
(A) with respect to a futures commission merchant, contract for the purchase or sale of a commodity for future delivery on, or subject to the rules of, a contract market or board of trade;
(B) with respect to a foreign futures commission merchant, foreign future;
(C) with respect to a leverage transaction merchant, leverage transaction;
(D) with respect to a clearing organization, contract for the purchase or sale of a commodity for future delivery on, or subject to the rules of, a contract market or board of trade that is cleared by such clearing organization, or commodity option traded on, or subject to the rules of, a contract market or board of trade that is cleared by such clearing organization;
(E) with respect to a commodity options dealer, commodity option;
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(i) any other contract, option, agreement, or transaction that is similar to a contract, option, agreement, or transaction referred to in this paragraph; and
(ii) with respect to a futures commission merchant or a clearing organization, any other contract, option, agreement, or transaction, in each case, that is cleared by a clearing organization;
(G) any combination of the agreements or transactions referred to in this paragraph;
(H) any option to enter into an agreement or transaction referred to in this paragraph;
(I) a master agreement that provides for an agreement or transaction referred to in subparagraph (A), (B), (C), (D), (E), (F), (G), or (H), together with all supplements to such master agreement, without reg
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TITLE 11—BANKRUPTCY
§ 555
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
EFFECTIVE DATE OF 1986 AMENDMENT
Amendment by Pub. L. 99–554 effective 30 days after
Oct. 27, 1986, see section 302(a) of Pub. L. 99–554, set out
as a note under section 581 of Title 28, Judiciary and
Judicial Procedure.
EFFECTIVE DATE OF 1984 AMENDMENT
Amendment by Pub. L. 98–353 effective with respect
to cases filed 90 days after July 10, 1984, see section
552(a) of Pub. L. 98–353, set out as a note under section
101 of this title.
§ 555. Contractual right to liquidate, terminate,
or accelerate a securities contract
The exercise of a contractual right of a stock-
broker, financial institution, financial partici-
pant, or securities clearing agency to cause the
liquidation, termination, or acceleration of a se-
curities contract, as defined in section 741 of
this title, because of a condition of the kind
specified in section 365(e)(1) of this title shall
not be stayed, avoided, or otherwise limited by
operation of any provision of this title or by
order of a court or administrative agency in any
proceeding under this title unless such order is
authorized under the provisions of the Securi-
ties Investor Protection Act of 1970 or any stat-
ute administered by the Securities and Ex-
change Commission. As used in this section, the
term ‘‘contractual right’’ includes a right set
forth in a rule or bylaw of a derivatives clearing
organization (as defined in the Commodity Ex-
change Act), a multilateral clearing organiza-
tion (as defined in the Federal Deposit Insurance
Corporation Improvement Act of 1991), a na-
tional securities exchange, a national securities
association, a securities clearing agency, a con-
tract market designated under the Commodity
Exchange Act, a de
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