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PUBLIC LAW 95-000—MMMM. DD, 1978

92 STAT. 2598 SM:>aiJ if

PUBLIC LAW 95-598—NOV. 6, 1978

service, raw materials, work in process, or materials used or con•'.,. sumed in a business, including farm products such as crops or livestock, held for sale or lease; (2) "new value" means money or money's worth in goods, services, or new credit, or release by a transferee of property previously transferred to such transferee in a transaction that is neither void nor voidable by the debtor or the trustee under any applicable law, but does not include an obligation substituted for an existing obligation; (3) "receivable" means right to payment, whether or not such right has been earned by performance; and (4) a debt for a tax is incurred on the day when such tax is last payable, including any extension, without penalty. (b) Except as provided in subsection (c) of this section, the trustee may avoid any transfer of property of the debtor— (1) to or for the benefit of a creditor; (2) for or on account of an antecedent debt owed by the debtor before such transfer was made; (3) made while the debtor was insolvent; (4) made— (A) on or within 90 days before the date of the filing of 1,,.,. ^^^ petition; or >?<!'..,e J ^g^ between 90 days and one year before the date of the

^ filing of the petition, if such creditor, at the time of such transfer— (i) was an insider; and (ii) had reasonable cause to believe the debtor was " '- '^ insolvent at the time of such transfer; and (5) that enables such creditor to receive more than such creditor would receive if— (A) the case were a case under chapter 7 of this title; (B) the transfer had not been made; and (C) such creditor received payment of such debt to the extent provided by the provisions of this title. (c) The trustee may not avoid under this section a transfer— (1) to the extent that such transfer was— (A) intended by the debtor and the creditor to or for whose benefit such transfer was made to be a contemporaneous exchange for new value ^ v e n to the debtor; and (B) m fact a substantially contemporaneous exchange; (2) to the extent that such transfer was— (A) in payment of a debt incurred in the ordinary course of business or financial affairs of the debtor and the transferee; (B) made not later than 45 days after such debt was incurred; (C) made in the ordinary course of business or financial affairs of the debtor and the transferee; and , (D) made according to ordinary business terms; (3) of a security interest in property acquired by the debtor— (A) to the extent such security interest secures new value that was— (i) given at or after the signing of a security agreement that contains a description of such property as collateral; (ii) given by or on behalf of the secured party under such agreement;