---
kind: "section"
citation: "15 U.S.C. § 3604"
title: "15"
title_heading: "Commerce and Trade"
number: "3604"
heading: "Exemptions"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/15/3604"
units:
  - "Chapter 62 — Condominium and Cooperative Conversion Protection and Abuse Relief"
---

# §3604. Exemptions


The provisions of this chapter shall not apply to—

- (1) a cooperative or [condominium unit](/usc/15/3603.md?p=6) sold or offered for sale by the Federal Government, by any [State](/usc/15/3603.md?p=23) or [local government](/usc/15/34.md?p=1), by any corporate instrumentality of the United States, or by any agency thereof;
- (2) a cooperative or [condominium project](/usc/15/3603.md?p=5) in which all units are restricted to nonresidential purposes or uses; or
- (3) any [lease](/usc/15/3603.md?p=16) or portion thereof—
  - (A) which establishes any leasehold or other estate or interest in, over or under land on or in which one or more [residential](/usc/15/3603.md?p=20) condominium or [cooperative units](/usc/15/3603.md?p=12) are located, the termination of which will terminate the condominium or [cooperative project](/usc/15/3603.md?p=10), or reduce the number of units in such project, or
  - (B) which establishes a leasehold interest in, or other rights to use, possess, or gain access to, a condominium or [cooperative unit](/usc/15/3603.md?p=12).

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 96–399, title VI, § 605, Oct. 8, 1980, 94 Stat. 1675.)