---
kind: "section"
citation: "48 U.S.C. § 2171"
title: "48"
title_heading: "Territories and Insular Possessions"
number: "2171"
heading: "Leases"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/48/2171"
units:
  - "Chapter 20 — Puerto Rico Oversight, Management, and Economic Stability"
  - "Subchapter III — Adjustments of Debts"
---

# §2171. Leases


A lease to a [territory](/usc/48/2104.md?p=20) or [territorial instrumentality](/usc/48/2104.md?p=19-A) shall not be treated as an executory contract or unexpired lease for the purposes of section [365](/usc/11/365.md) or [502(b)(6)](/usc/11/502.md?p=b-6) of title 11 solely by reason of the lease being subject to termination in the event the [debtor](/usc/48/2161.md?p=c-2) fails to appropriate rent.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 114–187, title III, § 311, June 30, 2016, 130 Stat. 583.)