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§6e Dealings by unregistered floor trader or broker prohibited

Title 7 › Chapter CHAPTER 1— - COMMODITY EXCHANGES › § 6e

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

No one may act as a floor trader or floor broker making futures trades on a contract market or derivatives trading platform unless they are registered with the Commission and that registration is current and not suspended or revoked.

Full Legal Text

Title 7, §6e

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It shall be unlawful for any person to act as floor trader in executing purchases and sales, or as floor broker in executing any orders for the purchase or sale, of any commodity for future delivery, or involving any contracts of sale of any commodity for future delivery, on or subject to the rules of any contract market or derivatives transaction execution facility unless such person shall have registered, under this chapter, with the Commission as such floor trader or floor broker and such registration shall not have expired nor been suspended nor revoked.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Amendments

2000—Pub. L. 106–554 inserted “or derivatives transaction execution facility” after “contract market”. 1992—Pub. L. 102–546 amended section generally. Prior to amendment, section read as follows: “It shall be unlawful for any person to act as floor broker in executing any orders for the purchase or sale of any commodity for future delivery, or involving any contracts of sale of any commodity for future delivery, on or subject to the rules of any contract market unless such person shall have registered, under this chapter, with the Commission as such floor broker and such registration shall not have expired nor been suspended nor revoked.” 1974—Pub. L. 93–463 substituted “Commission” for “Secretary of Agriculture”.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

of 1992 Amendment Pub. L. 102–546, title II, § 207(c), Oct. 28, 1992, 106 Stat. 3604, provided that: “The

Amendments

made by this section [amending this section and section 6f, 6g, 12a, and 13a–2 of this title] shall become effective one hundred and eighty days after the date of enactment of this Act [Oct. 28, 1992], and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission shall issue any

Regulations

necessary to implement the

Amendments

made by this section no later than one hundred and eighty days after the date of enactment of this Act.”

Effective Date

of 1974 AmendmentFor

Effective Date

of amendment by Pub. L. 93–463, see section 418 of Pub. L. 93–463, set out as a note under section 2 of this title.

Effective Date

For

Effective Date

of section, see section 13 of act June 15, 1936, set out as an

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of 1936 Amendment note under section 1 of this title.

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Citation

7 U.S.C. § 6e

Title 7Agriculture

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73