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11 USC § 765 - Customer instructions 

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identifier: "/us/usc/t11/s765"
source: "usc"
legal_status: "official_legal_evidence"
title: "11 USC § 765 - Customer instructions"
title_number: 11
title_name: "BANKRUPTCY"
section_number: "765"
section_name: "Customer instructions"
chapter_number: 7
chapter_name: "LIQUIDATION"
subchapter_number: "IV"
subchapter_name: "COMMODITY BROKER LIQUIDATION"
positive_law: true
currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-04-17"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
source_credit: "(Pub. L. 95–598, Nov. 6, 1978, 92 Stat. 2619; Pub. L. 97–222, § 18, July 27, 1982, 96 Stat. 240; Pub. L. 98–353, title III, § 488, July 10, 1984, 98 Stat. 383.)"
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# § 765. Customer instructions

**(a)** The notice required by section 342 of this title to customers shall instruct each customer—

**(1)** to file a proof of such customer’s claim promptly, and to specify in such claim any specifically identifiable security, property, or commodity contract; and

**(2)** to instruct the trustee of such customer’s desired disposition, including transfer under section 766 of this title or liquidation, of any commodity contract specifically identified to such customer.

**(b)** The trustee shall comply, to the extent practicable, with any instruction received from a customer regarding such customer’s desired disposition of any commodity contract specifically identified to such customer. If the trustee has transferred, under section 766 of this title, such a commodity contract, the trustee shall transmit any such instruction to the commodity broker to whom such commodity contract was so transferred.

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**Source Credit**: (Pub. L. 95–598, Nov. 6, 1978, 92 Stat. 2619; Pub. L. 97–222, § 18, July 27, 1982, 96 Stat. 240; Pub. L. 98–353, title III, § 488, July 10, 1984, 98 Stat. 383.)

### Historical and Revision Notes

For Historical and Revision Notes for this section, see Historical and Revision Notes set out under .

## Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1984—Subsec. (a).  substituted “notice required by” for “notice under”.

1982—Subsec. (b).  substituted “commodity contract” for “commitment”.

## Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date of 1984 Amendment

Amendment by  effective with respect to cases filed 90 days after , see , set out as a note under .