---
kind: "section"
citation: "17 C.F.R. § 38.151"
title: "17"
number: "38.151"
heading: "Access requirements."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/17/38.151"
---

# §38.151. Access requirements.

- (a) **Jurisdiction.** Prior to granting any member or market participant access to its markets, a designated contract market must require that the member or market participant consent to its jurisdiction.
- (b) **Impartial access by members, persons with trading privileges and independent software vendors.** A designated contract market must provide its members, persons with trading privileges, and independent software vendors with impartial access to its markets and services, including:
  - (1) Access criteria that are impartial, transparent, and applied in a non-discriminatory manner; and
  - (2) Comparable fee structures for members, persons with trading privileges and independent software vendors receiving equal access to, or services from, the designated contract market.
- (c) **Limitations on access.** A designated contract market must establish and impartially enforce rules governing denials, suspensions, and revocations of a member's and a person with trading privileges' access privileges to the designated contract market, including when such actions are part of a disciplinary or emergency action by the designated contract market.

## Notes

### Source

Source: 77 FR 36700, June 19, 2012, unless otherwise noted.

### Authority

Authority: 7 U.S.C. 1a, 2, 6, 6a, 6c, 6d, 6e, 6f, 6g, 6i, 6j, 6k, 6l, 6m, 6n, 7, 7a-2, 7b, 7b-1, 7b-3, 8, 9, 15, and 21, as amended by the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, Pub. L. 111-203, 124 Stat. 1376.

### Source

Source: 66 FR 42277, Aug. 10, 2001, unless otherwise noted.