---
kind: "section"
citation: "11 U.S.C. § 941"
title: "11"
title_heading: "Bankruptcy"
number: "941"
heading: "Filing of plan"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/11/941"
units:
  - "Chapter 9 — Adjustment of Debts of a Municipality"
  - "Subchapter III — The Plan"
---

# §941. Filing of plan


The [debtor](/usc/11/101.md?p=13) shall file a plan for the adjustment of the [debtor](/usc/11/101.md?p=13)’s [debts](/usc/11/101.md?p=12). If such a plan is not filed with the [petition](/usc/11/101.md?p=42), the [debtor](/usc/11/101.md?p=13) shall file such a plan at such later time as the court fixes.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 95–598, Nov. 6, 1978, 92 Stat. 2624.)

## Notes

### Historical and Revision Notes

### senate report no. 95–989

Section 941 gives the debtor the exclusive right to propose a plan, and directs that the debtor propose one either with the petition or within such time as the court directs. The section follows section 90(a) of current law [section 410(a) of former title 11].