§ 9.
(1)
Prohibition against manipulation
It shall be unlawful for any person, directly or indirectly, to use or employ, or attempt to use or employ, in connection with any swap, or a contract of sale of any commodity in interstate commerce, or for future delivery on or subject to the rules of any registered entity, any manipulative or deceptive device or contrivance, in contravention of such rules and regulations as the Commission shall promulgate by not later than 1 year after July 21, 2010, provided no rule or regulation promulgated by the Commission shall require any person to disclose to another person nonpublic information that may be material to the market price, rate, or level of the commodity transaction, except as necessary to make any statement made to the other person in or in connection with the transaction not misleading in any material respect.
(A)
Special provision for manipulation by false reporting
Unlawful manipulation for purposes of this paragraph shall include, but not be limited to, delivering, or causing to be delivered for transmission through the mails or interstate commerce, by any means of communication whatsoever, a false or misleading or inaccurate report concerning crop or market information or conditions that affect or tend to affect the price of any commodity in interstate commerce, knowing, or acting in reckless disregard of the fact that such report is false, misleading or inaccurate.
(C)
Good faith mistakes
Mistakenly transmitting, in good faith, false or misleading or inaccurate information to a price reporting service would not be sufficient to violate paragraph (1)(A).
([Sept. 21, 1922, ch. 369, § 6(c)], formerly § 6(b), [42 Stat. 1002]; [June 15, 1936, ch. 545, § 8], [49 Stat. 1498]; [June 25, 1948, ch. 646, § 32(a)], [62 Stat. 991]; [May 24, 1949, ch. 139, § 127], [63 Stat. 107]; [June 16, 1955, ch. 151], [69 Stat. 160]; [Pub. L. 85–791, § 7(b)], Aug. 28, 1958, [72 Stat. 944]; [Pub. L. 86–507, § 1(2)], June 11, 1960, [74 Stat. 200]; [Pub. L. 90–258, § 16], Feb. 19, 1968, [82 Stat. 30]; [Pub. L. 91–452, title II, § 202], Oct. 15, 1970, [84 Stat. 928]; [Pub. L. 93–463, title I, § 103(a)], (b), (d), (e), title II, §§ 204(b), 205(b), 212(a)(1), (2), title IV, § 408, Oct. 23, 1974, [88 Stat. 1392], 1397, 1400, 1403, 1414; [Pub. L. 95–405, § 13(3)], Sept. 30, 1978, [92 Stat. 871]; [Pub. L. 97–444, title II, § 219], Jan. 11, 1983, [96 Stat. 2308]; [Pub. L. 99–641, title I, § 103], Nov. 10, 1986, [100 Stat. 3557]; renumbered § 6(c) and amended [Pub. L. 102–546, title II], §§ 209(a)(1), 212(b), 223, title III, § 301, title IV, § 402(1)(C), (6), (7), (9)(B), Oct. 28, 1992, [106 Stat. 3606], 3609, 3617, 3622, 3624, 3625; [Pub. L. 106–554, § 1(a)(5) [title I, § 123(a)(12)(C)]], Dec. 21, 2000, [114 Stat. 2763], 2763A–409; [Pub. L. 110–234, title XIII, § 13103(a)], May 22, 2008, [122 Stat. 1433]; [Pub. L. 110–246, § 4(a)], title XIII, § 13103(a), June 18, 2008, [122 Stat. 1664], 2195; [Pub. L. 111–203, title VII], §§ 741(b)(3), 753(a), July 21, 2010, [124 Stat. 1731], 1750.)