11 U.S.C. § 763

Current through P.L. 118-106 (published on www.congress.gov on 10/04/2024)

Section 763 - Treatment of accounts

(a) Accounts held by the debtor for a particular customer in separate capacities shall be treated as accounts of separate customers.

(b) A member of a clearing organization shall be deemed to hold such member's proprietary account in a separate capacity from such member's customers' account.

(c) The net equity in a customer's account may not be offset against the net equity in the account of any other customer.

11 U.S.C. § 763

Pub. L. 95-598, Nov. 6, 1978, 92 Stat. 2618; Pub. L. 98-353, title III, §486, July 10, 1984, 98 Stat. 383.

HISTORICAL AND REVISION NOTES

SENATE REPORT NO. 95-989Section 763 provides for separate treatment of accounts held in separate capacities. A deficit in one account held for a customer may not be offset against the net equity in another account held by the same customer in a separate capacity or held by another customer.

EDITORIAL NOTES

AMENDMENTS1984-Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 98-353 substituted "by the debtor for" for "by" and "treated as" for "deemed to be".

STATUTORY NOTES AND RELATED SUBSIDIARIES

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.

debtor

The term "debtor" means person or municipality concerning which a case under this title has been commenced.(13A) The term "debtor's principal residence"-(A) means a residential structure if used as the principal residence by the debtor, including incidental property, without regard to whether that structure is attached to real property; and(B) includes an individual condominium or cooperative unit, a mobile or manufactured home, or trailer if used as the principal residence by the debtor.