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[CITE: 28USC1408]

 
               TITLE 28--JUDICIARY AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURE
 
                     PART IV--JURISDICTION AND VENUE
 
                   CHAPTER 87--DISTRICT COURTS; VENUE
 
Sec. 1408. Venue of cases under title 11

    Except as provided in section 1410 of this title, a case under title 
11 may be commenced in the district court for the district--
        (1) in which the domicile, residence, principal place of 
    business in the United States, or principal assets in the United 
    States, of the person or entity that is the subject of such case 
    have been located for the one hundred and eighty days immediately 
    preceding such commencement, or for a longer portion of such one-
    hundred-and-eighty-day period than the domicile, residence, or 
    principal place of business, in the United States, or principal 
    assets in the United States, of such person were located in any 
    other district; or
        (2) in which there is pending a case under title 11 concerning 
    such person's affiliate, general partner, or partnership.

(Added Pub. L. 98-353, title I, Sec. 102(a), July 10, 1984, 98 Stat. 
334.)


                            Prior Provisions

    A prior section 1408, added by Pub. L. 95-598, title II, 
Sec. 240(a), Nov. 6, 1978, 92 Stat. 2668, which related to bankruptcy 
appeals, did not become effective pursuant to section 402(b) of Pub. L. 
95-598, as amended, set out as an Effective Date note preceding section 
101 of Title 11, Bankruptcy.


                             Effective Date

    Section effective July 10, 1984, see section 122(a) of Pub. L. 98-
353, set out as a note under section 151 of this title.
