Title 15 — Commerce and Trade
Chapter 92 — Year 2000 Computer Date Change
§ 6609. Application of existing impossibility or commercial impracticability doctrines
Statutory text
In any Y2K action for breach or repudiation of contract, the applicability of the doctrines of impossibility and commercial impracticability shall be determined by the law in existence on . Nothing in this chapter shall be construed as limiting or impairing a party’s right to assert defenses based upon such doctrines.
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
Y2K Act
Pub. L. 106–37 § 10 · 113 Stat. 185
Enacted · 15 U.S.C. § 6609
(Pub. L. 106–37, § 10, July 20, 1999, 113 Stat. 199.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 106–37, § 10, July 20, 1999, 113 Stat. 199.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
SEC. 10. APPLICATION OF EXISTING IMPOSSIBILITY OR COMMERCIAL IMPRACTIBILITY DOCTRINES. In any Y2K action for breach or repudiation of contract, the applicability of the doctrines of impossibility and commercial impracticability shall be determined by the law in existence on January 1, 1999. Nothing in this Act shall be construed as limiting or impairing a party’s right to assert defenses based upon such doctrines.
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