---
kind: "section"
citation: "11 U.S.C. § 927"
title: "11"
title_heading: "Bankruptcy"
number: "927"
heading: "Limitation on recourse"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/11/927"
units:
  - "Chapter 9 — Adjustment of Debts of a Municipality"
  - "Subchapter II — Administration"
---

# §927. Limitation on recourse


The holder of a [claim](/usc/11/101.md?p=5) payable solely from [special revenues](/usc/11/902.md?p=2) of the [debtor](/usc/11/101.md?p=13) under applicable nonbankruptcy law shall not be treated as having recourse against the [debtor](/usc/11/101.md?p=13) on account of such [claim](/usc/11/101.md?p=5) pursuant to [section 1111(b) of this title](/usc/11/1111.md?p=b).


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 100–597, § 7(2), Nov. 3, 1988, 102 Stat. 3029.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

A prior section 927 was renumbered section 930 of this title.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective Nov. 3, 1988, but not applicable to any case commenced under this title before that date, see section 12 of Pub. L. 100–597, set out as an Effective Date of 1988 Amendment note under section 101 of this title.