Title 28, COMMERCIAL TRANSACTIONS

28-4-110. Electronic presentment. (1) "Agreement for electronic presentment" means an agreement, clearing-house rule, or federal reserve regulation or operating circular, providing that presentment of an item may be made by transmission of an image of an item or information descr…

28-4-111. Statute of limitations. An action to enforce an obligation, duty or right arising under this chapter must be commenced within three (3) years after the cause of action accrues.

28-4-201. Status of collecting bank as agent and provisional status of credits — Applicability of chapter — Item indorsed "pay any bank." (1) Unless a contrary intent clearly appears and before the time that a settlement given by a collecting bank for an item is or becomes final,…

28-4-202. Responsibility for collection or return — When action timely. (1) A collecting bank must exercise ordinary care in: (a) presenting an item or sending it for presentment; (b) sending notice of dishonor or nonpayment or returning an item other than a documentary draft to …

28-4-203. Effect of instructions. Subject to the provisions of chapter 3 concerning conversion of instruments (section 28-3-420) and restrictive indorsements (section 28-3-206), only a collecting bank’s transferor can give instructions that affect the bank or constitute notice to…

28-4-204. Methods of sending and presenting — Sending directly to payor bank. (1) A collecting bank shall send items by a reasonably prompt method, taking into consideration relevant instructions, the nature of the item, the number of those items on hand, the cost of collection i…

28-4-205. Depositary bank holder of unindorsed item. If a customer delivers an item to a depositary bank for collection: (1) The depositary bank becomes a holder of the item at the time it receives the item for collection if the customer at the time of delivery was a holder of th…

28-4-206. Transfer between banks. Any agreed method that identifies the transferor bank is sufficient for the item’s further transfer to another bank.

28-4-207. Transfer warranties. (1) A customer or collecting bank that transfers an item and receives a settlement or other consideration warrants to the transferee and to any subsequent collecting bank that: (a) The warrantor is a person entitled to enforce the item; (b) All sign…

28-4-208. Presentment warranties. (1) If an unaccepted draft is presented to the drawee for payment or acceptance and the drawee pays or accepts the draft, (i) the person obtaining payment or acceptance, at the time of presentment, and (ii) a previous transferor of the draft, at …

28-4-209. Encoding and retention warranties. (1) A person who encodes information on or with respect to an item after issue warrants to any subsequent collecting bank and to the payor bank or other payor that the information is correctly encoded. If the customer of a depositary b…

28-4-210. Security interest of collecting bank in items, accompanying documents and proceeds. (1) A collecting bank has a security interest in an item and any accompanying documents or the proceeds of either: (a) In case of an item deposited in an account, to the extent to which …

28-4-211. When bank gives value for purposes of holder in due course. For purposes of determining its status as a holder in due course, a bank has given value to the extent it has a security interest in an item, if the bank otherwise complies with the requirements of section 28-3…

28-4-212. Presentment by notice of item not payable by, through or at a bank — Liability of drawer or indorser. (1) 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 th…

28-4-213. Medium and time of settlement by bank. (1) 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: (a) T…

28-4-214. Right of charge-back or refund — Liability of collecting bank — Return of Item. (1) 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 a settlement…

28-4-215. Final payment of item by payor bank — When provisional debits and credits become final — When certain credits become available for withdrawal. (1) An item is finally paid by a payor bank when the bank has first done any of the following: (a) paid the item in cash; (b) s…

28-4-216. Insolvency and preference. (1) 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 prese…

28-4-301. Deferred posting — Recovery of payment by return of items — Time of dishonor — Return of items by payor bank. (1) 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 …

28-4-302. Payor bank’s responsibility for late return of item. (1) If an item is presented to and received by a payor bank, the bank is accountable for the amount of: (a) a demand item, other than a documentary draft, whether properly payable or not, if the bank, in any case in w…

28-4-303. When items subject to notice, stop-payment order, legal process or setoff — Order in which items may be charged or certified. (1) Any knowledge, notice or stop-payment order received by, legal process served upon, or setoff exercised by a payor bank comes too late to te…

28-4-401. When bank may charge customer’s account. (1) 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 acc…

28-4-402. Bank’s liability to customer for wrongful dishonor — Time of determining insufficiency of account. (1) 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 it…

28-4-403. Customer’s right to stop payment — Burden of proof of loss. (1) A customer or any person authorized to draw on the account if there is more than one (1) person may stop payment of any item drawn on the customer’s account or close the account by an order to the bank desc…

28-4-404. Bank not obligated to pay check more than six months old. 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 (6) months after its date, but it may charge its customer’s acc…

28-4-404A. Bank shall provide notice of use of photocopy check. In the event the original copy of a check is lost or mutilated during processing by a bank, and if a photocopy of a check is presented for payment, and the bank honors the photocopy for payment, the bank shall prepar…

28-4-404B. Statutory form for notice of processing photocopied check. The notice of a photocopied check required by section 28-4-404A, Idaho Code, shall be imprinted on the jacket containing the photocopied check or the facsimile itself and the notice shall be substantially in th…

28-4-404C. When notice not required. The notice required by section 28-4-404B, Idaho Code, shall not be required in the event that the customer has elected to have the bank hold checks.

28-4-405. Death or incompetence of customer. (1) 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…

28-4-406. Customer’s duty to discover and report unauthorized signature or alteration. (1) 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 pr…

28-4-407. Payor bank’s right to subrogation on improper payment. 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 p…

28-4-501. Handling of documentary drafts — Duty to send for presentment and to notify customer of dishonor. 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 be…

28-4-502. Presentment of "on arrival" drafts. 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 p…

28-4-503. Responsibility of presenting bank for documents and goods — Report of reasons for dishonor — Referee in case of need. Unless otherwise instructed and except as provided in chapter 5, a bank presenting a documentary draft: (1) must deliver the documents to the drawee on …

28-4-504. Privilege of presenting bank to deal with goods — Security interest for expenses. (1) 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 othe…

28-4-601. Short title. This part may be cited as "Uniform Commercial Code–Funds Transfers."

28-4-602. Subject matter. Except as otherwise provided in section 28-4-608, this part applies to funds transfers defined in section 28-4-604.

28-4-603. Payment order — Definitions. (1) In this part: (a) "Beneficiary" means the person to be paid by the beneficiary’s bank. (b) "Beneficiary’s bank" means the bank identified in a payment order in which an account of the beneficiary is to be credited pursuant to the order o…

28-4-604. Funds transfer — Definitions. In this part: (1) "Funds transfer" means the series of transactions, beginning with the originator’s payment order, made for the purpose of making payment to the beneficiary of the order. The term includes any payment order issued by the or…

28-4-605. Other definitions. (1) In this part: (a) "Authorized account" means a deposit account of a customer in a bank designated by the customer as a source of payment of payment orders issued by the customer to the bank. If a customer does not so designate an account, any acco…

28-4-606. Time payment order is received. (1) The time of receipt of a payment order or communication canceling or amending a payment order is determined by the rules applicable to receipt of a notice stated in section 28-1-202. A receiving bank may fix a cut-off time or times on…

28-4-607. Federal reserve regulations and operating circulars. Regulations of the board of governors of the Federal Reserve System and operating circulars of the Federal Reserve banks supersede any inconsistent provision of this part to the extent of the inconsistency.

28-4-608. Relationship to electronic fund transfer act. (1) Except as provided in subsection (2) of this section, this part does not apply to a funds transfer any part of which is governed by the electronic fund transfer act of 1978 (title XX, public law 95-630, 92 stat. 3728, 15…

28-4-609. Security procedure. "Security procedure" means a procedure established by agreement of a customer and a receiving bank for the purpose of (1) verifying that a payment order or communication amending or cancelling a payment order is that of the customer, or (2) detecting…

28-4-610. Authorized and verified payment orders. (1) 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. (2) If a bank and its customer …

28-4-611. Unenforceability of certain verified payment orders. (1) If an accepted payment order is not, under section 28-4-610(1), an authorized order of a customer identified as sender, but is effective as an order of the customer pursuant to section 28-4-610(2), the following r…