---
kind: "unit"
title: "15"
title_heading: "Commerce and Trade"
key: "ch2A/schIII"
level: "subchapter"
label: "Subchapter III"
heading: "Trust Indentures"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/15/ch2A-schIII"
sections_count: 28
---

# Subchapter III — Trust Indentures

Title 15 — Commerce and Trade › Chapter 2A — Securities and Trust Indentures

## Sections

- [§77aaa. Short title](/usc/15/77aaa.md)
- [§77bbb. Necessity for regulation](/usc/15/77bbb.md)
- [§77ccc. Definitions](/usc/15/77ccc.md)
- [§77ddd. Exempted securities and transactions](/usc/15/77ddd.md)
- [§77eee. Securities required to be registered under Securities Act](/usc/15/77eee.md)
- [§77fff. Securities not registered under Securities Act](/usc/15/77fff.md)
- [§77ggg. Qualification of indentures covering securities not required to be registered](/usc/15/77ggg.md)
- [§77hhh. Integration of procedure with Securities Act and other Acts](/usc/15/77hhh.md)
- [§77iii. Effective time of qualification](/usc/15/77iii.md)
- [§77jjj. Eligibility and disqualification of trustee](/usc/15/77jjj.md)
- [§77kkk. Preferential collection of claims against obligor](/usc/15/77kkk.md)
- [§77lll. Bondholders’ lists](/usc/15/77lll.md)
- [§77mmm. Reports by indenture trustee](/usc/15/77mmm.md)
- [§77nnn. Reports by obligor; evidence of compliance with indenture provisions](/usc/15/77nnn.md)
- [§77ooo. Duties and responsibility of the trustee](/usc/15/77ooo.md)
- [§77ppp. Directions and waivers by bondholders; prohibition of impairment of holder’s right to payment; record date](/usc/15/77ppp.md)
- [§77qqq. Special powers of trustee; duties of paying agents](/usc/15/77qqq.md)
- [§77rrr. Effect of prescribed indenture provisions](/usc/15/77rrr.md)
- [§77sss. Rules, regulations, and orders](/usc/15/77sss.md)
- [§77ttt. Hearings by Commission](/usc/15/77ttt.md)
- [§77uuu. Special powers of the Commission](/usc/15/77uuu.md)
- [§77vvv. Judicial review](/usc/15/77vvv.md)
- [§77www. Liability for misleading statements](/usc/15/77www.md)
- [§77xxx. Unlawful representations](/usc/15/77xxx.md)
- [§77yyy. Penalties](/usc/15/77yyy.md)
- [§77zzz. Effect on existing law](/usc/15/77zzz.md)
- [§77aaaa. Contrary stipulations void](/usc/15/77aaaa.md)
- [§77bbbb. Separability](/usc/15/77bbbb.md)