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Title 7 - AGRICULTURE
CHAPTER 1 - COMMODITY EXCHANGES
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Publication Title | United States Code, 1994 Edition, Supplement 5, Title 7 - AGRICULTURE |
Category | Bills and Statutes |
Collection | United States Code |
SuDoc Class Number | Y 1.2/5: |
Contained Within | Title 7 - AGRICULTURE CHAPTER 1 - COMMODITY EXCHANGES |
Contains | sections 1 to 26 |
Date | 1999 |
Laws in Effect as of Date | January 23, 2000 |
Positive Law | No |
Disposition | standard |
- Sec. 1 - Short title
- Sec. 1a - Definitions
- Sec. 2 - Accounts, agreements, and transactions subject to jurisdiction of Commodity Futures Trading Commission; relation to jurisdiction of Securities and Exchange Commission and Federal and State courts; excepted transactions
- Sec. 2a - Designation of boards of trade as contract markets; approval by and jurisdiction of Commodity Futures Trading Commission and Securities and Exchange Commission
- Sec. 3 - Transaction in interstate commerce
- Sec. 4 - Liability of principal for act of agent
- Sec. 4a - Commodity Futures Trading Commission
- Sec. 5 - Legislative findings
- Sec. 6 - Regulation of futures trading and foreign transactions
- Sec. 6a - Excessive speculation
- Sec. 6b - Fraud, false reporting, or deception prohibited
- Sec. 6c - Prohibited transactions
- Sec. 6d - Dealing by unregistered futures commission merchants or introducing brokers prohibited; duties of merchants regarding monies and securities of customers
- Sec. 6e - Dealings by unregistered floor trader or broker prohibited
- Sec. 6f - Registration and financial requirements; risk assessment
- Sec. 6g - Reporting and recordkeeping
- Sec. 6h - False self-representation as contract market member prohibited
- Sec. 6i - Reports of deals equal to or in excess of trading limits; books and records; cash and controlled transactions
- Sec. 6j - Regulation of trades and executions
- Sec. 6k - Registration of associates of futures commission merchants, commodity pool operators, and commodity trading advisors; required disclosure of disqualifications
- Sec. 6l - Commodity trading advisors and commodity pool operators; Congressional finding
- Sec. 6m - Use of mails or other means or instrumentalities of interstate commerce by commodity trading advisors and commodity pool operators; relation to other law
- Sec. 6n - Registration of commodity trading advisors and commodity pool operators; application; expiration and renewal; record keeping and reports; disclosure; statements of account
- Sec. 6o - Fraud and misrepresentation by commodity trading advisors, commodity pool operators, and associated persons
- Sec. 6p - Standards and examinations
- Sec. 7 - Designation of board of trade as “contract market”; conditions and requirements
- Sec. 7a - Duties of contract markets
- Sec. 7b - Suspension or revocation of designation as “contract market”
- Sec. 8 - Application for designation as “contract market”; time; suspension or revocation of designation; hearing; review by court of appeals
- Sec. 9 - Exclusion of persons from privilege of “contract markets”; procedure for exclusion; review by court of appeals
- Sec. 9a - Assessment of money penalties
- Sec. 9b - Rules prohibiting deceptive and other abusive telemarketing acts or practices
- Sec. 10 - Repealed. June 25, 1948, ch. 646, §39, 62 Stat. 992, eff. Sept. 1, 1948
- Sec. 10a - Cooperative associations and corporations, exclusion from board of trade; rules of board inapplicable to payment of compensation by association
- Sec. 11 - Vacation on request of designation as “contract market”; redesignation
- Sec. 12 - Public disclosure
- Secs. 12-1 to 12-3 - Omitted
- Sec. 12a - Registration of commodity dealers and associated persons; regulation of contract markets
- Sec. 12b - Trading ban violations; prohibition
- Sec. 12c - Disciplinary actions
- Sec. 12d - Commission action for noncompliance with export sales reporting requirements
- Sec. 12e - Commission oversight; deficiency orders
- Sec. 13 - Violations generally; punishment; costs of prosecution
- Sec. 13-1 - Violations, prohibition against dealings in onion futures; punishment
- Sec. 13a - Nonenforcement of rules of government or other violations; cease and desist orders; fines and penalties; imprisonment; misdemeanor; separate offenses
- Sec. 13a-1 - Enjoining or restraining violations
- Sec. 13a-2 - Jurisdiction of States
- Sec. 13b - Manipulations or other violations; cease and desist orders against persons other than contract markets; punishment; misdemeanor or felony; separate offenses
- Sec. 13c - Responsibility as principal; minor violations
- Sec. 14 - Repealed. Pub. L. 99-641, title I, §110(5), Nov. 10, 1986, 100 Stat. 3561
- Sec. 15 - Enforcement powers of Commission
- Sec. 15a - Repealed. Pub. L. 95-405, §24, Sept. 30, 1978, 92 Stat. 877
- Sec. 15b - Cotton futures contracts
- Sec. 16 - Commission operations
- Sec. 16a - Service fees and National Futures Association study
- Sec. 17 - Separability
- Sec. 17a - Separability of 1936 amendment
- Sec. 17b - Separability of 1968 amendment
- Sec. 18 - Complaints against registered persons
- Sec. 19 - Antitrust laws; anticompetitive means
- Sec. 20 - Market reports
- Sec. 21 - Registered futures associations
- Sec. 22 - Research and information programs; reports to Congress
- Sec. 23 - Standardized contracts for certain commodities
- Sec. 24 - Regulations respecting commodity broker debtors; definitions
- Sec. 25 - Private rights of action
- Sec. 26 - Repealed. Pub. L. 102-546, title IV, §402(15), Oct. 28, 1992, 106 Stat. 3625
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