---
kind: "section"
citation: "7 U.S.C. § 9c"
title: "7"
title_heading: "Agriculture"
number: "9c"
heading: "Notice of investigations and enforcement actions"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/7/9c"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — Commodity Exchanges"
---

# §9c. Notice of investigations and enforcement actions


The [Commission](/usc/7/1a.md?p=8) shall provide the [Securities](/usc/7/1a.md?p=41) and [Exchange](/usc/7/1a.md?p=1-D) [Commission](/usc/7/1a.md?p=8) with notice of the commencement of any proceeding and a copy of any order entered by the [Commission](/usc/7/1a.md?p=8) pursuant to section [9](/usc/7/9.md) and [13b](/usc/7/13b.md) of this title against any [futures commission merchant](/usc/7/1a.md?p=28-A) or [introducing broker](/usc/7/1a.md?p=31-A) registered pursuant to [section 6f(a)(2) of this title](/usc/7/6f.md?p=a-2), any [floor broker](/usc/7/1a.md?p=22-A) or [floor trader](/usc/7/1a.md?p=23-A) exempt from registration pursuant to [section 6f(a)(3) of this title](/usc/7/6f.md?p=a-3), any associated [person](/usc/7/1a.md?p=38) exempt from registration pursuant to [section 6k(6) of this title](/usc/7/6k.md?p=6), or any [board of trade](/usc/7/1a.md?p=6) designated as a contract [market](/usc/7/198.md?p=1) pursuant to [section 7b–1 of this title](/usc/7/7b–1.md).


## Source credit

(Sept. 21, 1922, ch. 369, § 6(g), as added Pub. L. 106–554, § 1(a)(5) [title II, § 253(b)], Dec. 21, 2000, 114 Stat. 2763, 2763A–449.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section is comprised of subsec. (g) of section 6 of act Sept. 21, 1922. Subsecs. (a) and (b) of section 6 are classified to section 8 of this title. Subsec. (c) of section 6 is classified to section 9 of this title. Subsecs. (d), (e), and (f) of section 6 are classified to sections 13b, 9a, and 9b of this title, respectively.