§ 6h. False self-representation as registered entity member prohibited

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. 1922

   Sept. 21, 1922, ch. 369, § 4h, as added June 15, 1936, ch. 545, § 5, 49 Stat. 1496 · 49 Stat. 1496

   Enacted · 7 U.S.C. § 6h

   Sept. 21, 1922, ch. 369, § 4h, as added June 15, 1936, ch. 545, § 5, 49 Stat. 1496

   Source evidence

   Code source credit
   Sept. 21, 1922, ch. 369, § 4h, as added June 15, 1936, ch. 545, § 5, 49 Stat. 1496

2. 1983

   Futures Trading Act of 1982

   Pub. L. 97–444 title II § 210 · 96 Stat. 2294

   Struck · 7 U.S.C. § 6h

   Pub. L. 97–444 struck out provisions formerly designated as par. (1) relating to conduct of offices or places of business anywhere in the United States or its territories that were used for dealing in commodities for future delivery unless such dealings were executed or consummated by or through a member of a contract market, which provisions were transferred to section 6(a) of this title, and broadened remaining provisions, formerly designated as par. (2), to prohibit false representations that a person is registered with the Commission in any capacity, and not only as a futures commission merchant, as previously provided

   Source evidence

   Code amendment note
   Pub. L. 97–444 struck out provisions formerly designated as par. (1) relating to conduct of offices or places of business anywhere in the United States or its territories that were used for dealing in commodities for future delivery unless such dealings were executed or consummated by or through a member of a contract market, which provisions were transferred to section 6(a) of this title, and broadened remaining provisions, formerly designated as par. (2), to prohibit false representations that a person is registered with the Commission in any capacity, and not only as a futures commission merchant, as previously provided.

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   Sec. 210. misrepresentation of status; technical amendments Section 4h of the Commodity Exchange Act (7 U.S.C. 6h) is amended to read as follows: “Sec. 4h. It shall be unlawful for any person falsely to represent such person to be a member of a contract market or the representa-tive or agent of such member, or to be a registrant under this Act or the representative or agent of any registrant, in soliciting or handling any order or contract for the purchase or sale of any commodity in interstate commerce or for future delivery, or falsely to represent in connection with the handling of any such order or contract that the same is to be or has been executed on, or by or through a member of, any contract market.”.

   Effective date note
   Amendment by Pub. L. 97–444 effective Jan. 11, 1983, see section 239 of Pub. L. 97–444, set out as a note under section 2 of this title.

3. 2000

   Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2001

   Pub. L. 106–554 § 1(a)(5)(tI)(s123)(a)(8) · 114 Stat. 2763

   Substituted · 7 U.S.C. § 6h

   Pub. L. 106–554 substituted “registered entity” for “contract market” in two places

   Source evidence

   Code amendment note
   Pub. L. 106–554 substituted “registered entity” for “contract market” in two places.

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   (5) H.R. 5660, as introduced on December 14, 2000.

2 of 3 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial