Title 47, Uniform Commercial Code

A. Unless otherwise instructed, a collecting bank may present an item not payable by, through or at a bank by sending to the party to accept or pay a written notice that the bank holds the item for acceptance or payment. The notice must be sent in time to be received on or before…

A. With respect to settlement by a bank, the medium and time of settlement may be prescribed by federal reserve regulations or circulars, clearing-house rules and the like or agreement. In the absence of such prescription: 1. The medium of settlement is cash or credit to an accou…

A. If a collecting bank has made provisional settlement with its customer for an item and fails by reason of dishonor, suspension of payments by a bank or otherwise to receive settlement for the item which is or becomes final, the bank may revoke the settlement given by it, charg…

A. An item is finally paid by a payor bank when the bank has first done any of the following: 1. Paid the item in cash; 2. Settled for the item without having a right to revoke the settlement under statute, clearing-house rule or agreement; or 3. Made a provisional settlement for…

A. If an item is in or comes into the possession of a payor or collecting bank that suspends payment and the item has not been finally paid, the item must be returned by the receiver, trustee or agent in charge of the closed bank to the presenting bank or the closed bank's custom…

"Security procedure" means a procedure established by agreement of a customer and a receiving bank for the purpose of verifying that a payment order or communication amending or cancelling a payment order is that of the customer or detecting error in the transmission or the conte…

A. A payment order received by the receiving bank is the authorized order of the person identified as sender if that person authorized the order or is otherwise bound by it under the law of agency. B. If a bank and its customer have agreed that the authenticity of payment orders …

A. If an accepted payment order is not, under section 47-4A202, subsection A, an authorized order of a customer identified as sender, but is effective as an order of the customer pursuant to section 47-4A202, subsection B, the following rules apply: 1. By express written agreemen…

A. If a receiving bank accepts a payment order issued in the name of its customer as sender which is not authorized and not effective as the order of the customer under section 47-4A202 or not enforceable, in whole or in part, against the customer under section 47-4A203, the bank…

A. If an accepted payment order was transmitted pursuant to a security procedure for the detection of error and the payment order erroneously instructed payment to a beneficiary not intended by the sender, erroneously instructed payment in an amount greater than the amount intend…

A. If a payment order addressed to a receiving bank is transmitted to a funds-transfer system or other third-party communication system for transmittal to the bank, the system is deemed to be an agent of the sender for the purpose of transmitting the payment order to the bank. If…

A. Subject to subsection B, if, in a payment order received by the beneficiary's bank, the name, bank account number or other identification of the beneficiary refers to a nonexistent or unidentifiable person or account, no person has rights as a beneficiary of the order and acce…

A. The following rules apply to a payment order identifying an intermediary bank or the beneficiary's bank only by an identifying number: 1. The receiving bank may rely on the number as the proper identification of the intermediary or beneficiary's bank and need not determine whe…

A. Subject to subsection D of this section, a receiving bank other than the beneficiary's bank accepts a payment order when it executes the order. B. Subject to subsections C and D of this section, a beneficiary's bank accepts a payment order at the earliest of the following time…

A. A payment order is rejected by the receiving bank by a notice of rejection transmitted to the sender orally, electronically or in writing. A notice of rejection need not use any particular words and is sufficient if it indicates that the receiving bank is rejecting the order o…

A. A communication of the sender of a payment order cancelling or amending the order may be transmitted to the receiving bank orally, electronically or in writing. If a security procedure is in effect between the sender and the receiving bank, the communication is not effective t…

If a receiving bank fails to accept a payment order that it is obliged by express agreement to accept, the bank is liable for breach of the agreement to the extent provided in the agreement or in this chapter, but does not otherwise have any duty to accept a payment order or, bef…

A. If a payor bank settles for a demand item other than a documentary draft presented otherwise than for immediate payment over the counter before midnight of the banking day of receipt, the payor bank may revoke the settlement and recover the settlement if, before it has made fi…

A. If an item is presented to and received by a payor bank, the bank is accountable for the amount of: 1. A demand item, other than a documentary draft, whether properly payable or not, if the bank, in any case in which it is not also the depositary bank, retains the item beyond …

A. Any knowledge, notice or stop-payment order received by, legal process served upon or setoff exercised by a payor bank comes too late to terminate, suspend or modify the bank's right or duty to pay an item or to charge its customer's account for the item if the knowledge, noti…

A. A payment order is "executed" by the receiving bank when it issues a payment order intended to carry out the payment order received by the bank. A payment order received by the beneficiary's bank can be accepted but cannot be executed. B. "Execution date" of a payment order me…

A. Except as provided in subsections B, C and D of this section, if the receiving bank accepts a payment order pursuant to section 47-4A209, subsection A, the bank has the following obligations in executing the order: 1. The receiving bank is obliged to issue, on the execution da…

A. A receiving bank that executes the payment order of the sender by issuing a payment order in an amount greater than the amount of the sender's order, or issues a payment order in execution of the sender's order and then issues a duplicate order, is entitled to payment of the a…

If the sender of a payment order that is erroneously executed as stated in section 47-4A303 receives notification from the receiving bank that the order was executed or that the sender's account was debited with respect to the order, the sender has a duty to exercise ordinary car…

A. If a funds transfer is completed but execution of a payment order by the receiving bank in breach of section 47-4A302 results in delay in payment to the beneficiary, the bank is obliged to pay interest to either the originator or the beneficiary of the funds transfer for the p…

A. A bank may charge against the account of a customer an item that is properly payable from that account even though the charge creates an overdraft. An item is properly payable if it is authorized by the customer and is in accordance with any agreement between the customer and …

A. Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, a payor bank wrongfully dishonors an item if it dishonors an item that is properly payable, but a bank may dishonor an item that would create an overdraft unless it has agreed to pay the overdraft. B. A payor bank is liable to its …

A. A customer or any person authorized to draw on the account if there is more than one person may stop payment of any item drawn on the customer's account or close the account by an order to the bank describing the item or account with reasonable certainty received at a time and…

A bank is under no obligation to a customer having a checking account to pay a check, other than a certified check, which is presented more than six months after its date, but it may charge its customer's account for a payment made thereafter in good faith.

A. A payor or collecting bank's authority to accept, pay or collect an item or to account for proceeds of its collection, if otherwise effective, is not rendered ineffective by incompetence of a customer of either bank existing at the time the item is issued or its collection is …

A. A bank that sends or makes available to a customer a statement of account showing payment of items for the account shall either return or make available to the customer the items paid or provide information in the statement of account sufficient to allow the customer reasonabl…

If a payor bank has paid an item over the order of the drawer or maker to stop payment, or after an account has been closed or otherwise under circumstances giving a basis for objection by the drawer or maker, to prevent unjust enrichment and only to the extent necessary to preve…

"Payment date" of a payment order means the day on which the amount of the order is payable to the beneficiary by the beneficiary's bank. The payment date may be determined by instruction of the sender but cannot be earlier than the day the order is received by the beneficiary's …

A. This section is subject to sections 47-4A205 and 47-4A207. B. With respect to a payment order issued to the beneficiary's bank, acceptance of the order by the bank obliges the sender to pay the bank the amount of the order, but payment is not due until the payment date of the …

A. Payment of the sender's obligation under section 47-4A402 to pay the receiving bank occurs as follows: 1. If the sender is a bank, payment occurs when the receiving bank receives final settlement of the obligation through a federal reserve bank or through a funds-transfer syst…

A. Subject to section 47-4A211, subsection E and section 47-4A405, subsections D and E, if a beneficiary's bank accepts a payment order, the bank is obliged to pay the amount of the order to the beneficiary of the order. Payment is due on the payment date of the order, but if acc…

A. If the beneficiary's bank credits an account of the beneficiary of a payment order, payment of the bank's obligation under section 47-4A404, subsection A occurs when and to the extent: 1. The beneficiary is notified of the right to withdraw the credit; 2. The bank lawfully app…

A. Subject to section 47-4A211, subsection E and section 47-4A405, subsections D and E, the originator of a funds transfer pays the beneficiary of the originator's payment order at the time a payment order for the benefit of the beneficiary is accepted by the beneficiary's bank i…

A bank that takes a documentary draft for collection shall present or send the draft and accompanying documents for presentment and, upon learning that the draft has not been paid or accepted in due course, shall seasonably notify its customer of the fact even though it may have …

If a draft or the relevant instructions require presentment "on arrival", "when goods arrive" or the like, the collecting bank need not present until in its judgment a reasonable time for arrival of the goods has expired. Refusal to pay or accept because the goods have not arrive…

Unless otherwise instructed and except as provided in chapter 5 of this title, a bank presenting a documentary draft: 1. Must deliver the documents to the drawee on acceptance of the draft if it is payable more than three days after presentment; otherwise, only on payment; and 2.…

A. A presenting bank that, following the dishonor of a documentary draft, has seasonably requested instructions but does not receive them within a reasonable time may store, sell, or otherwise deal with the goods in any reasonable manner. B. For its reasonable expenses incurred b…

A. Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, the rights and obligations of a party to a funds transfer may be varied by agreement of the affected party. B. "Funds-transfer system rule" means a rule of an association of banks governing transmission of payment orders by means o…

A. As used in this section, "creditor process" means levy, attachment, garnishment, notice of lien, sequestration or similar process issued by or on behalf of a creditor or other claimant with respect to an account. B. This subsection applies to creditor process with respect to a…

For proper cause and in compliance with applicable law, a court may restrain a person from issuing a payment order to initiate a funds transfer, an originator's bank from executing the payment order of the originator or the beneficiary's bank from releasing funds to the beneficia…

A. If a receiving bank has received more than one payment order of the sender or one or more payment orders and other items that are payable from the sender's account, the bank may charge the sender's account with respect to the various orders and items in any sequence. B. In det…