Title 15 — Commerce and Trade
Chapter 2A — Securities and Trust Indentures
§ 77rrr. Effect of prescribed indenture provisions
Statutory text
Imposed duties to control
If any provision of the indenture to be qualified limits, qualifies, or conflicts with the duties imposed by operation of subsection (c) of this section, the imposed duties shall control.
Additional provisions
The indenture to be qualified may contain, in addition to provisions specifically authorized under this subchapter to be included therein, any other provisions the inclusion of which is not in contravention of any provision of this subchapter.
Provisions governing qualified indentures
The provisions of sections 77jjj to and including 77qqq of this title that impose duties on any person (including provisions automatically deemed included in an indenture unless the indenture provides that such provisions are excluded) are a part of and govern every qualified indenture, whether or not physically contained therein, shall be deemed retroactively to govern each indenture heretofore qualified, and prospectively to govern each indenture hereafter qualified under this subchapter and shall be deemed retroactively to amend and supersede inconsistent provisions in each such indenture heretofore qualified. The foregoing provisions of this subsection shall not be deemed to effect the inclusion (by retroactive amendment or otherwise) in the text of any indenture heretofore qualified of any of the optional provisions contemplated by section 77jjj(b)(1), 77kkk(b), 77nnn(d), 77ooo(a), 77ooo(b), 77ooo(d), 77ooo(e), or 77ppp(a)(1) of this title.
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.
Pub. L. 76–38 · 53 Stat. 568
Enacted · 15 U.S.C. § 77rrr
May 27, 1933, ch. 38, title III, § 318, as added Aug. 3, 1939, ch. 411, 53 Stat. 1173
Source evidence
Code source credit
May 27, 1933, ch. 38, title III, § 318, as added Aug. 3, 1939, ch. 411, 53 Stat. 1173Trust Indenture Reform Act of 1990
Pub. L. 101–550 § 417(1) · 104 Stat. 2713
Added · 15 U.S.C. § 77rrr(a)
Pub. L. 101–550, § 417(1), added subsec. (a)
Struck · 15 U.S.C. § 77rrr(a)
Pub. L. 101–550, § 417(1), struck out former subsec. (a) which read as follows: “The indenture to be qualified shall provide that if any provision thereof limits, qualifies, or conflicts with another provision which is required to be included in such indenture by any of sections 77jjj to 77qqq of this title, inclusive, such required provision shall control.”
Source evidence
Code amendment note
Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 101–550, § 417(1), added subsec. (a) and struck out former subsec. (a) which read as follows: “The indenture to be qualified shall provide that if any provision thereof limits, qualifies, or conflicts with another provision which is required to be included in such indenture by any of sections 77jjj to 77qqq of this title, inclusive, such required provision shall control.”Enacted provision · exact public law section
(1) by striking subsection (a) and inserting the following: “Sec. 318. (a) If any provision of the indenture to be qualified limits, qualifies, or conflicts with the duties imposed by operation of subsection (c) of this section, the imposed duties shall control.”;Trust Indenture Reform Act of 1990
Pub. L. 101–550 § 417(2) · 104 Stat. 2713
Added · 15 U.S.C. § 77rrr(c)
Pub. L. 101–550, § 417(2), added subsec. (c)
Source evidence
Code amendment note
Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 101–550, § 417(2), added subsec. (c).Enacted provision · exact public law section
(2) by adding at the end thereof the following new subsection: “(c) The provisions of sections 310 to and including 317 that impose duties on any person (including provisions automatically deemed included in an indenture unless the indenture provides that such provisions are excluded) are a part of and govern every qualified indenture, whether or not physically contained therein, shall be deemed retroactively to govern each indenture heretofore qualified, and prospectively to govern each indenture hereafter qualified under this title and shall be deemed retroactively to amend and supersede inconsistent provisions in each such indenture heretofore qualified. The foregoing provisions of this subsection shall not be deemed to effect the inclusion (by retroactive amendment or otherwise) in the text of any indenture heretofore qualified of any of the optional provisions contemplated by section 310(b)(1), 311(b), 314(d), 315(a), 315(b), 315(d), 315(e), or 316(a)(1).”.
3 of 4 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial
Editorial Notes
Amendments
1990—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 101–550, § 417(1), added subsec. (a) and struck out former subsec. (a) which read as follows: “The indenture to be qualified shall provide that if any provision thereof limits, qualifies, or conflicts with another provision which is required to be included in such indenture by any of sections 77jjj to 77qqq of this title, inclusive, such required provision shall control.”
Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 101–550, § 417(2), added subsec. (c).
Credits
1933–1990 · 2 acts
- 1933May 27, 1933, ch. 38, title III, § 318, as added Aug. 3, 1939, ch. 411, 53 Stat. 1173
- 1990amended Pub. L. 101–550, title IV, § 417, , 104 Stat. 2731.
Show as published
(May 27, 1933, ch. 38, title III, § 318, as added Aug. 3, 1939, ch. 411, 53 Stat. 1173; amended Pub. L. 101–550, title IV, § 417, , 104 Stat. 2731.)