ORDER DENYING REMOVAL

The application before the court, filed on April 27, 1982, seeks removal of a civil action commenced by the Commissioner of Securities of the State of Wisconsin against the above-named Chapter 11 debtors and thirty-eight other defendants (State of Wisconsin v. Oliver Plunkett et al, Milwaukee County Circuit Court, Case No. 580725,) filed on April 13, 1982, two days before the *907debtors filed Chapter 11 petitions in this court. In State v. Plunkett the Commissioner of Securities is seeking relief from violations of the Wisconsin Uniform Securities Law, Chapter 551, Wis.Stat. Such relief includes: (a) injunctions restraining further violations of Chapter 551, Wis.Stat.; (b) orders requiring the defendants to obtain orders of registration or exemption pri- or to the offer or sale of securities; (c) injunctions enjoining dissolution of entities or dissipation of assets; (d) recission of all unlawful securities transactions and return of proceeds to investors; (e) the appointment of a receiver for the assets of Oliver Plunkett, Real Estate Resources, Inc. and the other named defendants; (f) orders requiring an accounting and production of documents with respect to assets of the defendants. On April 13, 1982, Milwaukee Circuit Court Judge Gary Gerlach granted a temporary injunction restraining the defendants from violating Chapter 551, Wis. Stat., the dissolution of corporate or partnership entities, and the sale or encumbrances of any property or any actions tending to dissipate the value of the assets or interests in property of the partnership or investors named in the complaint. According to the removal applications, the Commissioner’s motions for the appointment of a temporary receiver and the entry of a temporary injunction were scheduled to be heard by Judge Gerlach on April 15, 1982, but the court suspended the hearing upon the filing of the Chapter 11 petitions by the Plunketts and Real Estate Resources, Inc. The only issue before this court is whether or not the lawsuit commenced by the Commissioner of Securities in state court may be removed.

“The removal jurisdiction of federal courts is derived entirely from the statutory authorization of Congress. ... [And] removal statutes are strictly construed against removal.” [Citations omitted] Libhart v. Santa Monica Dairy, 592 F.2d 1062, 1064 (9th Cir. 1978) (referring to the removal provisions of 28 U.S.C. § 1441). Consequently, the State of Wisconsin may not waive the jurisdictional requirement of § 1478 as was offered in its removal application.

Section 1478 of Title 28 U.S.C., provides:

(a) A party may remove any claim or cause of action in a civil action, other than a proceeding before the United States Tax Court or a civil action by a Government unit’s police or regulatory power, to the bankruptcy court for the district where such civil action is pending, if the bankruptcy courts have jurisdiction over such claim or cause of action.

(b) The court to which such claim or cause of action is removed may remand such claim or cause of action on any equitable ground. An order under this subsection remanding a claim or cause of action, or a decision not so remanding, is not reviewable by appeal or otherwise.

Subsection (a) of the statute expressly prohibits the removal of a civil action by a government unit under its police or regulatory powers. And since courts have duly recognized that the purpose of Chapter 551, the Wisconsin Uniform Securities Law, is to protect the public from fraudulent or deceptive practices in securities transactions through enumerated regulations. See, Colonial Bank & Trust v. American Bankshares, 442 F.Supp. 234, 237 (E.D.Wis. 1977); State v. Woodington, 31 Wis.2d 151, 181-182, 142 N.W.2d 810 (1960), none of the claims or causes of action within State v. Plunkett et al, can be removed to this court.

Although this court has concluded that it lacks removal jurisdiction to consider alleged prepetition violations of Wisconsin Uniform Securities Law by the Chapter 11 debtors, no opinion is being rendered as to whether the Securities Commissioner’s actions should be stayed notwithstanding the exception to the automatic stay (11 U.S.C. § 362(a)) provided by 11 U.S.C. § 362(b).1

The court is likewise expressing no opinion as to whether the Securities Com*908missioner has other causes of action or claims within the jurisdiction of the court. See, In re Unit Parts Company, 1 Bankr.Ct. Dec. (C.R.R.) 432, 4 Collier Bankr.Cas.2d 145 (M.B.), 9 B.R. 380 (Wests) (Bkrtcy.W.D.Okla. 1981).2 However, it should be noted that upon the filing of a petition under Title 11 of the U.S. Code, the bankruptcy court obtains exclusive jurisdiction “of all the property, wherever located, of the debt- or, as of the commencement of such case.” 28 U.S.C. § 1471(e), and that a nonbank-ruptcy court might not be able to provide a full range of relief. Furthermore, the extent to which an action pursued in the valid exercise of the state’s police or regulatory power might frustrate or prove to be inconsistent with the goals of Title 11 or the bankruptcy court’s exclusive jurisdiction over the debtor’s property must be considered on a case by case basis in matters properly before the court to stay that action.

For the foregoing reasons,

IT IS ORDERED that State of Wisconsin v. Oliver Plunkett, et al, Case No. 580725 be and the same hereby is remanded to Milwaukee County Circuit Court.