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/* We continue with Chapter 11, part two. */
SECTION 1129 (11 U.S.C. 1129)
1129. Confirmation of plan.
(a) The court shall confirm a plan only if all of the following
requirements are met:
(1) The plan complies with the applicable provisions of
this title.
(2) The proponent of the plan complies with the applicable
provisions of this title.
(3) The plan has been proposed in good faith and not by any
means forbidden by law.
(4) Any payment made or to be made by the proponent, by the
debtor, or by a person issuing securities or acquiring property
under the plan, for services or for costs and expenses in or in
connection with the case, or in connection with the plan and
incident to the case, has been approved by, or is subject to the
approval of, the court as reasonable;
(5)(A)(i) The proponent of the plan has disclosed the
identity and affiliations of any individual proposed to serve,
after confirmation of the plan, as a director, officer, or voting
trustee of the debtor, an affiliate of the debtor participating
in a joint plan with the debtor, or a successor to the debtor
under the plan; and
(ii) the appointment to, or continuance in, such office of
such individual, is consistent with the interests of creditors
and equity security holders and with public policy; and
(B) the proponent of the plan has disclosed the identity of
any insider that will be employed or retained by the reorganized
debtor, and the nature of any compensation for such insider.
/* These requirements relate ot the disclosure statement. It is a
strange idea to place these requirements here, rather than in the
disclosure statement provisions. */
(6) Any governmental regulatory commission with
jurisdiction, after confirmation of the plan, over the rates of
the debtor has approved any rate change provided for in the plan,
or such rate change is expressly conditioned on such approval
(7) With respect to each impaired class of claims or
interests --
(A) each holder of a claim or interest of such class-
(i) has accepted the plan; or
/* If the class (and each secured creditor usually is its own
class) does not accept the plan provisions, the following
requirements must be met. This is the famous "cram down" in which
the terms of the plan are crammed down the throats of the
creditors despite their objections. */
(ii) will receive or retain under the plan on account of
such claim or interest property of a value, as of the effective
date of the plan, that is not less than the amount that such
holder would so receive or retain if the debtor were liquidated
under chapter 7 of this title on such date; or
(B) if section 1111(b)(2) of this title applies to the
claims of such class, each holder of a claim of such class will
receive or retain under the plan on account of such claim
property of a value, as of the effective date of the plan, that
is not less than the value of such holder's interest in the
estate's interest in the property that secures such claims.
/* The mindnumbing provisions of 1111(b)(2) provide for a secured
non-recourse creditor to accept altered treatment of their
rights. */
(8) With respect to each class of claims or interests --
(A) such class has accepted the plan; or
(B) such class is not impaired under the plan.
/* A class is not impaired under several circumstances include
de-acceleration of a defaulted installment obligation. */
(9) Except to the extent that the holder of a particular
claim has agreed to a different treatment of such claim, the plan
provides that-
(A) with respect to a claim of a kind specified in section
507(a)(1) or 507(a)(2) of this title, on the effective date of
the plan, the holder of such claim will receive on account of
such claim cash equal to the allowed amount of such claim;
(B) with respect to a class of claims of a kind specified
in section 507(a)(3), 507(a)(4), 507(a)(5) or 507(a)(6) of this
title, each holder of a claim of such class will receive--
(i) if such class has accepted the plan, deferred cash
payments of a value, as of the effective date of the plan, equal
to the allowed amount of such claim; or
(ii) if such class has not accepted the plan, cash on the
effective date of the plan equal to the allowed amount of such
claim; and
(C) with respect to a claim of a kind specified in section
507(a)(7) of this title, the holder of such claim will receive on
account of such claim deferred cash payments, over a period not
exceeding six years after the date of assessment of such claim,
of a value, as of the effective date of the plan, equal to the
allowed amount of such claim.
(10) If a class of claims is impaired under the plan, at
least one class of claims that is impaired under the plan has
accepted the plan, determined without including any acceptance of
the plan by an insider.
(11) Confirmation of the plan is not likely to be followed
by the liquidation, or the need for further financial
reorganization, of the debtor or any successor to the debtor
under the plan, unless such liquidation or reorganization is
proposed in the plan.
(12) All fees payable under section 1930, as determined by
the court at the hearing on confirmation of the plan, have been
paid or the plan provides for the payment of all such fees on the
effective date of the plan.
(13) The plan provides for the continuation after its
effective date of payment of all retiree benefits, as that term
is defined in section 1114 of this title, at the level
established pursuant to subsection (e)(1)(B) or (g) of section
1114 of this title, at any time prior to confirmation of the
plan, for the duration of the period the debtor has obligated
itself to provide such benefits.
(b)(1) Notwithstanding section 510(a) of this title, if all of
the applicable requirements of subsection (1) of this section
other than paragraph (8) are met with respect to a plan, the
court on request of the proponent of the plan, shall confirm the
plan notwithstanding the requirements of such paragraph if the
plan does not discriminate unfairly, and is fair and equitable,
with respect to each class of claims or interest that is impaired
under, and has not accepted, the plan.
(2) For the purpose of this subsection, the condition that a
plan be fair and equitable with respect to a class includes the
following requirements:
(A) With respect to a class of secured claims, the plan
provides--
(i)(I) that the holders of such claims retain the
liens securing said claims, whether the property subject to such
liens is retained by the debtor or transferred to another entity,
to the extent of the allowed amount of such claims; and
(II) the each holder of a claim of such class
receive on account of such claim deferred cash payments totaling
at least the allowed amount of such claim, of a value, as of the
effective date of the plan, of at least the value of such
holder's interest in the estate's interest in such property;
(ii) for the sale, subject to section 363(k) of this
title, of any property that is subject to the liens securing such
claims, free and clear of such liens, with such liens to attach
to the proceeds of such sale, and the treatment of such liens on
proceeds under clause 9i) or (iii) of this subparagraph; or
(iii) for the realization by such holders of the
indubitable equivalent of such claims.
(B) With respect to a class of unsecured claims--
(i) the plan provides that each holder of a claim of
such class receive or retain on account of such claim property of
a value, as of the effective date of the plan, equal to the
allowed amount of such claim; or
(ii) the holder of any claim or interest that is junior to
the claims of