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[CITE: 28USC1409]

 
               TITLE 28--JUDICIARY AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURE
 
                     PART IV--JURISDICTION AND VENUE
 
                   CHAPTER 87--DISTRICT COURTS; VENUE
 
Sec. 1409. Venue of proceedings arising under title 11 or 
        arising in or related to cases under title 11
        
    (a) Except as otherwise provided in subsections (b) and (d), a 
proceeding arising under title 11 or arising in or related to a case 
under title 11 may be commenced in the district court in which such case 
is pending.
    (b) Except as provided in subsection (d) of this section, a trustee 
in a case under title 11 may commence a proceeding arising in or related 
to such case to recover a money judgment of or property worth less than 
$1,000 or a consumer debt of less than $5,000 only in the district court 
for the district in which the defendant resides.
    (c) Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section, a trustee 
in a case under title 11 may commence a proceeding arising in or related 
to such case as statutory successor to the debtor or creditors under 
section 541 or 544(b) of title 11 in the district court for the district 
where the State or Federal court sits in which, under applicable 
nonbankruptcy venue provisions, the debtor or creditors, as the case may 
be, may have commenced an action on which such proceeding is based if 
the case under title 11 had not been commenced.
    (d) A trustee may commence a proceeding arising under title 11 or 
arising in or related to a case under title 11 based on a claim arising 
after the commencement of such case from the operation of the business 
of the debtor only in the district court for the district where a State 
or Federal court sits in which, under applicable nonbankruptcy venue 
provisions, an action on such claim may have been brought.
    (e) A proceeding arising under title 11 or arising in or related to 
a case under title 11, based on a claim arising after the commencement 
of such case from the operation of the business of the debtor, may be 
commenced against the representative of the estate in such case in the 
district court for the district where the State or Federal court sits in 
which the party commencing such proceeding may, under applicable 
nonbankruptcy venue provisions, have brought an action on such claim, or 
in the district court in which such case is pending.

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


                             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.
