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CHAPTER 1 - COMMODITY EXCHANGES

  • Sec. 1. Short title
  • Sec. 1a. Definitions
  • Sec. 2. Jurisdiction of Commission; liability of principal for act of agent; Commodity Futures Trading Commission; transaction in interstate commerce
  • Sec. 2a to 4a. Transferred
  • Sec. 5. Findings and purpose
  • 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 in handling customer receipts; rules to avoid duplicative regulations
  • 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 registered entity member prohibited
  • Sec. 6i. Reports of deals equal to or in excess of trading limits; books and records; cash and controlled transactions
  • Sec. 6j. Restrictions on dual trading in security futures products on designated contract markets and registered derivatives transaction execution facilities
  • Sec. 6k. Registration of associates of futures commission merchants, commodity pool operators, and commodity trading advisors; required disclosure of disqualifications; exemptions for associated persons
  • 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. 6o-1. Special procedures to encourage and facilitate bona fide hedging by agricultural producers
  • Sec. 6p. Standards and examinations
  • Sec. 7. Designation of boards of trade as contract markets
  • Sec. 7a. Derivatives transaction execution facilities
  • Sec. 7a-1. Derivatives clearing organizations
  • Sec. 7a-2. Common provisions applicable to registered entities
  • Sec. 7a-3. Exempt boards of trade
  • Sec. 7b. Suspension or revocation of designation as registered entity
  • Sec. 7b-1. Designation of securities exchanges and associations as contract markets
  • Sec. 7b-2. Privacy
  • Sec. 8. Application for designation as contract market or derivatives transaction execution facility; time; suspension or revocation of designation; hearing; review by court of appeals
  • Sec. 9. Exclusion of persons from privilege of ''registered entities''; 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. 9c. Notice of investigations and enforcement actions
  • Sec. 10. Repealed. June 25, 1948, ch. 646, Sec. 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 or registration as ''registered entity''; redesignation or reregistration
  • Sec. 12. Public disclosure
  • Sec. 12-1 to 12-3. Omitted
  • Sec. 12a. Registration of commodity dealers and associated persons; regulation of registered entities
  • Sec. 12b. Trading ban violations; prohibition
  • Sec. 12c. Disciplinary actions
  • Sec. 12d. Commission action for noncompliance with export sales reporting requirements
  • Sec. 12e. Repealed. Pub. L. 106-554, Sec. 1a5 title I, Sec. 123a21, Dec. 21, 2000, 114 Stat. 2763, 2763A-410
  • 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 registered entities; punishment; misdemeanor or felony; separate offenses
  • Sec. 13c. Responsibility as principal; minor violations
  • Sec. 14. Repealed. Pub. L. 99-641, title I, Sec. 1105, Nov. 10, 1986, 100 Stat. 3561
  • Sec. 15. Enforcement powers of Commission
  • Sec. 15a. Repealed. Pub. L. 95-405, Sec. 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. Consideration of costs and benefits and antitrust laws
  • 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, Sec. 40215, Oct. 28, 1992, 106 Stat. 3625
  • Sec. 27. Definitions
  • Sec. 27a. Exclusion of identified banking products commonly offered on or before December 5, 2000
  • Sec. 27b. Exclusion of certain identified banking products offered by banks after December 5, 2000
  • Sec. 27c. Exclusion of certain other identified banking products
  • Sec. 27d. Administration of the predominance test
  • Sec. 27e. Exclusion of covered swap agreements
  • Sec. 27f. Contract enforcement
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