---
kind: "section"
citation: "17 C.F.R. § 171.44"
title: "17"
number: "171.44"
heading: "Notice of appeal."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/17/171.44"
---

# §171.44. Notice of appeal.

- (a) **Time to file.** Any party aggrieved by a final decision of the National Futures Association in a member responsibility action may, within thirty days of the service of the notice described in [§ 171.42](/cfr/17/171.42.md), file with the Proceedings Clerk and serve on the National Futures Association a notice of appeal. The filing of such a notice shall not stay the effective date of the decision.
- (b) **Contents.** The notice of appeal shall meet the content requirements of [§ 171.23(b)](/cfr/17/171.23.md?p=b).
- (c) **Filing fee.** Each notice of appeal must be accompanied by a nonrefundable filing fee of $100. This amount may be paid by check, bank draft or money order, payable to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
- (d) **Defective notices of appeal.** Notices of appeal that are untimely or not accompanied by the filing fee shall not be accepted by the Proceedings Clerk absent a showing, by motion, of excusable neglect.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 7 U.S.C. 4a, 12a and 21, unless otherwise noted.

### Source

Source: 55 FR 41068, Oct. 9, 1990, unless otherwise noted.