- accountant
means accountant authorized under applicable law to practice public accounting, and includes professional accounting association, corporation, or partnership, if so authorized.
- affiliate
means—
- assisted person
means any person whose debts consist primarily of consumer debts and the value of whose nonexempt property is less than $150,000.1
- attorney
means attorney, professional law association, corporation, or partnership, authorized under applicable law to practice law.
- bankruptcy assistance
means any goods or services sold or otherwise provided to an assisted person with the express or implied purpose of providing information, advice, counsel, document preparation, or filing, or attendance at a creditors’ meeting or appearing in a case or proceeding on behalf of another or providing legal representation with respect to a case or proceeding under this title.
- bankruptcy petition preparer
means a person, other than an attorney for the debtor or an employee of such attorney under the direct supervision of such attorney, who prepares for compensation a document for filing;
- claim
means—
- claim against the debtor
includes claim against property of the debtor;
- commercial fishing operation
means—
- commercial fishing vessel
means a vessel used by a family fisherman to carry out a commercial fishing operation.
- commodity broker
means futures commission merchant, foreign futures commission merchant, clearing organization, leverage transaction merchant, or commodity options dealer, as defined in section 761 of this title, with respect to which there is a customer, as defined in section 761 of this title.
- community claim
means claim that arose before the commencement of the case concerning the debtor for which property of the kind specified in section 541(a)(2) of this title is liable, whether or not there is any such property at the time of the commencement of the case.
- consumer debt
means debt incurred by an individual primarily for a personal, family, or household purpose.
- creditor
means—
- custodian
means—
- debt
means liability on a claim.
- debt relief agency
means any person who provides any bankruptcy assistance to an assisted person in return for the payment of money or other valuable consideration, or who is a bankruptcy petition preparer under section 110, but does not include—
- debtor
means person or municipality concerning which a case under this title has been commenced.
- disability
means that the debtor is so physically impaired as to be unable, after reasonable effort, to participate in an in person, telephone, or Internet briefing required under paragraph (1).
- disinterested person
means a person that—
- document for filing
means a petition or any other document prepared for filing by a debtor in a United States bankruptcy court or a United States district court in connection with a case under this title.
- domestic support obligation
means a debt that accrues before, on, or after the date of the order for relief in a case under this title, including interest that accrues on that debt as provided under applicable nonbankruptcy law notwithstanding any other provision of this title, that is—
- entity
includes person, estate, trust, governmental unit, and United States trustee.
- equity security
means—
- equity security holder
means holder of an equity security of the debtor.
- family farmer
means—
- family farmer with regular annual income
means family farmer whose annual income is sufficiently stable and regular to enable such family farmer to make payments under a plan under chapter 12 of this title.
- family fisherman
means—
- family fisherman with regular annual income
means a family fisherman whose annual income is sufficiently stable and regular to enable such family fisherman to make payments under a plan under chapter 12 of this title.
- farmer
means (except when such term appears in the term “family farmer”) person that received more than 80 percent of such person’s gross income during the taxable year of such person immediately preceding the taxable year of such person during which the case under this title concerning such person was commenced from a farming operation owned or operated by such person.
- farming operation
includes farming, tillage of the soil, dairy farming, ranching, production or raising of crops, poultry, or livestock, and production of poultry or livestock products in an unmanufactured state.
- farmout agreement
means a written agreement in which—
- Federal depository institutions regulatory agency
means—
- financial institution
means—
- financial participant
means—
- foreign proceeding
means a collective judicial or administrative proceeding in a foreign country, including an interim proceeding, under a law relating to insolvency or adjustment of debt in which proceeding the assets and affairs of the debtor are subject to control or supervision by a foreign court, for the purpose of reorganization or liquidation.
- foreign representative
means a person or body, including a person or body appointed on an interim basis, authorized in a foreign proceeding to administer the reorganization or the liquidation of the debtor’s assets or affairs or to act as a representative of such foreign proceeding.
- forward contract
means—
- forward contract merchant
means a Federal reserve bank, or an entity the business of which consists in whole or in part of entering into forward contracts as or with merchants in a commodity (as defined in section 761) or any similar good, article, service, right, or interest which is presently or in the future becomes the subject of dealing in the forward contract trade.
- governmental unit
means United States;
- incidental property
means, with respect to a debtor’s principal residence—
- indenture
means mortgage, deed of trust, or indenture, under which there is outstanding a security, other than a voting-trust certificate, constituting a claim against the debtor, a claim secured by a lien on any of the debtor’s property, or an equity security of the debtor.
- indenture trustee
means trustee under an indenture.
- individual with regular income
means individual whose income is sufficiently stable and regular to enable such individual to make payments under a plan under chapter 13 of this title, other than a stockbroker or a commodity broker.
- insider
includes—
- insolvent
means—
- insured credit union
has the meaning given it in section 101(7) of the Federal Credit Union Act.
- intellectual property
means— to the extent protected by applicable nonbankruptcy law.
- judicial lien
means lien obtained by judgment, levy, sequestration, or other legal or equitable process or proceeding.
- lien
means charge against or interest in property to secure payment of a debt or performance of an obligation.
- margin payment
means, for purposes of the forward contract provisions of this title, payment or deposit of cash, a security or other property, that is commonly known in the forward contract trade as original margin, initial margin, maintenance margin, or variation margin, including mark-to-market payments, or variation payments.
- mask work
has the meaning given it in section 901(a)(2) of title 17.
- master netting agreement participant
means an entity that, at any time before the date of the filing of the petition, is a party to an outstanding master netting agreement with the debtor.
- median family income
means for any year—
- municipality
means political subdivision or public agency or instrumentality of a State.
- order for relief
means entry of an order for relief;
- patient
means any individual who obtains or receives services from a health care business.
- patient records
means any record relating to a patient, including a written document or a record recorded in a magnetic, optical, or other form of electronic medium.
- person
includes individual, partnership, and corporation, but does not include governmental unit, except that a governmental unit that— shall be considered, for purposes of section 1102 of this title, to be a person with respect to such asset or such benefit.
- personally identifiable information
means—
- petition
means petition filed under section 301, 302, 303 and 3 1504 of this title, as the case may be, commencing a case under this title.
- production payment
means a term overriding royalty satisfiable in cash or in kind—
- purchaser
means transferee of a voluntary transfer, and includes immediate or mediate transferee of such a transferee.
- railroad
means common carrier by railroad engaged in the transportation of individuals or property or owner of trackage facilities leased by such a common carrier.
- relative
means individual related by affinity or consanguinity within the third degree as determined by the common law, or individual in a step or adoptive relationship within such third degree.
- repo participant
means an entity that, at any time before the filing of the petition, has an outstanding repurchase agreement with the debtor.
- securities clearing agency
means person that is registered as a clearing agency under section 17A of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, or exempt from such registration under such section pursuant to an order of the Securities and Exchange Commission, or whose business is confined to the performance of functions of a clearing agency with respect to exempted securities, as defined in section 3(a)(12) of such Act for the purposes of such section 17A.
- securities self regulatory organization
means either a securities association registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission under section 15A of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 or a national securities exchange registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission under section 6 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.
- security agreement
means agreement that creates or provides for a security interest.
- security interest
means lien created by an agreement.
- settlement payment
means, for purposes of the forward contract provisions of this title, a preliminary settlement payment, a partial settlement payment, an interim settlement payment, a settlement payment on account, a final settlement payment, a net settlement payment, or any other similar payment commonly used in the forward contract trade.
- single asset real estate
means real property constituting a single property or project, other than residential real property with fewer than 4 residential units, which generates substantially all of the gross income of a debtor who is not a family farmer and on which no substantial business is being conducted by a debtor other than the business of operating the real property and activities incidental thereto.
- small business case
means a case filed under chapter 11 of this title in which the debtor is a small business debtor and has not elected that subchapter V of chapter 11 of this title shall apply.
- State
includes the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, except for the purpose of defining who may be a debtor under chapter 9 of this title.
- statutory lien
means lien arising solely by force of a statute on specified circumstances or conditions, or lien of distress for rent, whether or not statutory, but does not include security interest or judicial lien, whether or not such interest or lien is provided by or is dependent on a statute and whether or not such interest or lien is made fully effective by statute.
- stockbroker
means person—
- swap participant
means an entity that, at any time before the filing of the petition, has an outstanding swap agreement with the debtor.
- term overriding royalty
means an interest in liquid or gaseous hydrocarbons in place or to be produced from particular real property that entitles the owner thereof to a share of production, or the value thereof, for a term limited by time, quantity, or value realized.
- timeshare plan
means and shall include that interest purchased in any arrangement, plan, scheme, or similar device, but not including exchange programs, whether by membership, agreement, tenancy in common, sale, lease, deed, rental agreement, license, right to use agreement, or by any other means, whereby a purchaser, in exchange for consideration, receives a right to use accommodations, facilities, or recreational sites, whether improved or unimproved, for a specific period of time less than a full year during any given year, but not necessarily for consecutive years, and which extends for a period of more than three years.
- transfer
means—
- uninsured State member bank
means a State member bank (as defined in section 3 of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act) the deposits of which are not insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.
- United States trustee
includes a designee of the United States trustee.