---
kind: "section"
citation: "11 U.S.C. § 750"
title: "11"
title_heading: "Bankruptcy"
number: "750"
heading: "Distribution of securities"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/11/750"
units:
  - "Chapter 7 — Liquidation"
  - "Subchapter III — Stockbroker Liquidation"
---

# §750. Distribution of securities


The trustee may not distribute a [security](/usc/11/101.md?p=49) except under [section 751 of this title](/usc/11/751.md).


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 95–598, Nov. 6, 1978, 92 Stat. 2614.)

## Notes

### Historical and Revision Notes

### senate report no. 95–989

Section 750 forbids the trustee from distributing a security other than a customer name security. The term “distribution” refers to a distribution to customers in satisfaction of net equity claims and is not intended to preclude the trustee from liquidating securities under proposed 11 U.S.C. 748.