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Title 48 — Territories and Insular Possessions

Chapter 20 — Puerto Rico Oversight, Management, and Economic Stability

§ 2171. Leases

Statutory text

A lease to a territory or territorial instrumentality shall not be treated as an executory contract or unexpired lease for the purposes of section 365 or 502(b)(6) of title 11 solely by reason of the lease being subject to termination in the event the debtor fails to appropriate rent.

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.

  1. Puerto Rico Oversight, Management, and Economic Stability Act

    Pub. L. 114–187 title III § 311 · 130 Stat. 549

    Enacted · 48 U.S.C. § 2171

    (Pub. L. 114–187, title III, § 311, June 30, 2016, 130 Stat. 583.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Pub. L. 114–187, title III, § 311, June 30, 2016, 130 Stat. 583.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    SEC. 311. LEASES.   A lease to a territory or territorial instrumentality shall not be treated as an executory contract or unexpired lease for the purposes of section 365 or 502(b)(6) of title 11, United States Code, solely by reason of the lease being subject to termination in the event the debtor fails to appropriate rent.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Credits

(Pub. L. 114–187, title III, § 311, , 130 Stat. 583.)

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