---
kind: "section"
citation: "11 U.S.C. § 783"
title: "11"
title_heading: "Bankruptcy"
number: "783"
heading: "Additional powers of trustee"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/11/783"
units:
  - "Chapter 7 — Liquidation"
  - "Subchapter V — Clearing Bank Liquidation"
---

# §783. Additional powers of trustee

- (a) **Distribution of Property Not of the Estate.—** The trustee under this subchapter has power to distribute property not of the estate, including distributions to customers that are mandated by subchapters III and IV of this chapter.
- (b) **Disposition of Institution.—** The trustee under this subchapter may, after notice and a hearing—
  - (1) sell the [clearing bank](/usc/11/781.md?p=3) to a [depository institution](/usc/11/781.md?p=2) or consortium of [depository institutions](/usc/11/781.md?p=2) (which consortium may agree on the allocation of the [clearing bank](/usc/11/781.md?p=3) among the consortium);
  - (2) merge the [clearing bank](/usc/11/781.md?p=3) with a [depository institution](/usc/11/781.md?p=2);
  - (3) [transfer](/usc/11/101.md?p=54) contracts to the same extent as could a receiver for a [depository institution](/usc/11/781.md?p=2) under paragraphs (9) and (10) of section 11(e) of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act;
  - (4) [transfer](/usc/11/101.md?p=54) assets or liabilities to a [depository institution](/usc/11/781.md?p=2); and
  - (5) [transfer](/usc/11/101.md?p=54) assets and liabilities to a bridge [depository institution](/usc/11/781.md?p=2) as provided in paragraphs (1), (3)(A), (5), and (6) of section 11(n) of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act, paragraphs (9) through (13) of such section, and subparagraphs [(A)](#b-5-A) through (H) and subparagraph (K) of paragraph (4) of such section 11(n), except that—
    - (A) the bridge [depository institution](/usc/11/781.md?p=2) to which such assets or liabilities are transferred shall be treated as a [clearing bank](/usc/11/781.md?p=3) for the purpose of this subsection; and
    - (B) any references in any such provision of law to the Federal Deposit Insurance [Corporation](/usc/11/101.md?p=9) shall be construed to be references to the appointing agency and that references to deposit insurance shall be omitted.
- (c) **Certain Transfers Included.—** Any reference in this section to [transfers](/usc/11/101.md?p=54) of liabilities includes a ratable [transfer](/usc/11/101.md?p=54) of liabilities within a priority class.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 106–554, § 1(a)(5) [title I, § 112(c)(5)(B)], Dec. 21, 2000, 114 Stat. 2763, 2763A–395; amended Pub. L. 110–289, div. A, title VI, § 1604(b)(3), July 30, 2008, 122 Stat. 2829.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

Section 11 of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act, referred to in subsec. (b)(3), (5), is classified to section 1821 of Title 12, Banks and Banking.

### Amendments

2008—Subsec. (b)(5). Pub. L. 110–289, which directed amendment of this section by substituting “bridge depository institution” for “bridge bank”, was executed by making the substitution in introductory provisions and subpar. (A) of subsec. (b)(5), to reflect the probable intent of Congress.