---
kind: "section"
citation: "11 U.S.C. § 928"
title: "11"
title_heading: "Bankruptcy"
number: "928"
heading: "Post petition effect of security interest"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/11/928"
units:
  - "Chapter 9 — Adjustment of Debts of a Municipality"
  - "Subchapter II — Administration"
---

# §928. Post petition effect of security interest

- (a) Notwithstanding [section 552(a) of this title](/usc/11/552.md?p=a) and subject to [subsection (b)](#b) of this section, [special revenues](/usc/11/902.md?p=2) acquired by the [debtor](/usc/11/101.md?p=13) after the commencement of the case shall remain subject to any [lien](/usc/11/101.md?p=37) resulting from any [security agreement](/usc/11/101.md?p=50) entered into by the [debtor](/usc/11/101.md?p=13) before the commencement of the case.
- (b) Any such [lien](/usc/11/101.md?p=37) on [special revenues](/usc/11/902.md?p=2), other than municipal betterment assessments, derived from a project or system shall be subject to the necessary operating expenses of such project or system, as the case may be.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 100–597, § 8, Nov. 3, 1988, 102 Stat. 3029.)

## Notes

### 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.