7 U.S.C. § 13
Section 13 · Violations, prohibition against dealings in onion futures; punishment
Amended 2 times on record
Applied in 6 court decisions — leading case 639 F. Supp. 1293 - Grosser v. Commodity Exchange, Inc. (1986)
Most recently applied in 693 F. Supp. 168 - Commodity Futures Trading Commission v. American Metal Exchange Corp. (July 1988)
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year.Markers show enactment, consequential amendments, and circuit splits over this section — watch for a citation surge after a change or a disagreement. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
(a) No contract for the sale of motion picture box office receipts (or any index, measure, value, or data related to such receipts) or onions for future delivery shall be made on or subject to the rules of any board of trade in the United States. The terms used in this section shall have the same meaning as when used in this chapter.
(b) Any person who shall violate the provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof be fined not more than $5,000.
Editorial notes U.S. Code · Office of the Law Revision Counsel
Codification
Section was not enacted as part of the Commodity Exchange Act which comprises this chapter.
Amendments
2010—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 111–203 inserted “motion picture box office receipts (or any index, measure, value, or data related to such receipts) or” after “sale of”.
Effective Date of 2010 Amendment
Amendment by Pub. L. 111–203 effective on the later of 360 days after July 21, 2010, or, to the extent a provision of subtitle A (§§711–754) of title VII of Pub. L. 111–203 requires a rulemaking, not less than 60 days after publication of the final rule or regulation implementing such provision of subtitle A, see section 754 of Pub. L. 111–203, set out as a note under section 1a of this title.
Effective Date
Section 2 of Pub. L. 85–839 provided that: “This Act [enacting this section] shall take effect thirty days after its enactment [Aug. 28, 1958].”