Chapter 1 - COMMODITY EXCHANGES

Section 1 - Short title
Section 1a - Definitions
Section 1b - Requirements of Secretary of the Treasury regarding exemption of foreign exchange swaps and foreign exchange forwards from definition of the term "swap"
Section 2 - Jurisdiction of Commission; liability of principal for act of agent; Commodity Futures Trading Commission; transaction in interstate commerce
Section 2a to 4a - Transferred
Section 5 - Findings and purpose
Section 6 - Regulation of futures trading and foreign transactions
Section 6a - Excessive speculation
Section 6b - Contracts designed to defraud or mislead
Section 6b-1 - Enforcement authority
Section 6c - Prohibited transactions
Section 6d - Dealing by unregistered futures commission merchants or introducing brokers prohibited; duties in handling customer receipts; conflict-of-interest systems and procedures; Chief Compliance Officer; rules to avoid duplicative regulations; swap requirements; portfolio margining accounts
Section 6e - Dealings by unregistered floor trader or broker prohibited
Section 6f - Registration and financial requirements; risk assessment
Section 6g - Reporting and recordkeeping
Section 6h - False self-representation as registered entity member prohibited
Section 6i - Reports of deals equal to or in excess of trading limits; books and records; cash and controlled transactions
Section 6j - Restrictions on dual trading in security futures products on designated contract markets and registered derivatives transaction execution facilities
Section 6k - Registration of associates of futures commission merchants, commodity pool operators, and commodity trading advisors; required disclosure of disqualifications; exemptions for associated persons
Section 6l - Commodity trading advisors and commodity pool operators; Congressional finding
Section 6m - Use of mails or other means or instrumentalities of interstate commerce by commodity trading advisors and commodity pool operators; relation to other law
Section 6n - Registration of commodity trading advisors and commodity pool operators; application; expiration and renewal; record keeping and reports; disclosure; statements of account
Section 6o - Fraud and misrepresentation by commodity trading advisors, commodity pool operators, and associated persons
Section 6o-1 - Transferred
Section 6p - Standards and examinations
Section 6q - Special procedures to encourage and facilitate bona fide hedging by agricultural producers
Section 6r - Reporting and recordkeeping for uncleared swaps
Section 6s - Registration and regulation of swap dealers and major swap participants
Section 6t - Large swap trader reporting
Section 7 - Designation of boards of trade as contract markets
Section 7a - Repealed
Section 7a-1 - Derivatives clearing organizations
Section 7a-2 - Common provisions applicable to registered entities
Section 7a-3 - Repealed
Section 7b - Suspension or revocation of designation as registered entity
Section 7b-1 - Designation of securities exchanges and associations as contract markets
Section 7b-2 - Privacy
Section 7b-3 - Swap execution facilities
Section 8 - Application for designation as contract market or derivatives transaction execution facility; time; suspension or revocation of designation; hearing; review by court of appeals
Section 9 - Prohibition regarding manipulation and false information
Section 9a - Assessment of money penalties
Section 9b - Rules prohibiting deceptive and other abusive telemarketing acts or practices
Section 9c - Notice of investigations and enforcement actions
Section 10 - Repealed
Section 10a - Cooperative associations and corporations, exclusion from board of trade; rules of board inapplicable to payment of compensation by association
Section 11 - Vacation on request of designation or registration as "registered entity"; redesignation or reregistration
Section 12 - Public disclosure
Section 12-1 to 12-3 - Omitted
Section 12a - Registration of commodity dealers and associated persons; regulation of registered entities
Section 12b - Trading ban violations; prohibition
Section 12c - Disciplinary actions
Section 12d - Commission action for noncompliance with export sales reporting requirements
Section 12e - Repealed
Section 13 - Violations generally; punishment; costs of prosecution
Section 13-1 - Violations, prohibition against dealings in motion picture box office receipts or onion futures; punishment
Section 13a - Nonenforcement of rules of government or other violations; cease and desist orders; fines and penalties; imprisonment; misdemeanor; separate offenses
Section 13a-1 - Enjoining or restraining violations
Section 13a-2 - Jurisdiction of States
Section 13b - Manipulations or other violations; cease and desist orders against persons other than registered entities; punishment
Section 13c - Responsibility as principal; minor violations
Section 14 - Repealed
Section 15 - Omitted
Section 15a - Repealed
Section 15b - Cotton futures contracts
Section 16 - Commission operations
Section 16a - Service fees and National Futures Association study
Section 17 - Separability
Section 17a - Separability of 1936 amendment
Section 17b - Separability of 1968 amendment
Section 18 - Complaints against registered persons
Section 19 - Consideration of costs and benefits and antitrust laws
Section 20 - Market reports
Section 21 - Registered futures associations
Section 22 - Research and information programs; reports to Congress
Section 23 - Standardized contracts for certain commodities
Section 24 - Customer property with respect to commodity broker debtors; definitions
Section 24a - Swap data repositories
Section 25 - Private rights of action
Section 26 - Commodity whistleblower incentives and protection
Section 27 - Definitions
Section 27a - Exclusion of identified banking product
Section 27b - Repealed
Section 27c - Exclusion of certain other identified banking products
Section 27d - Administration of the predominance test
Section 27e - Repealed
Section 27f - Contract enforcement