Title 12A, Title 12A: COMMERCIAL TRANSACTIONS

12A:4-105. "Bank"; "depositary bank"; "payor bank"; "intermediary bank"; "collecting bank"; "presenting bank" As used in this chapter: a. "Bank" means a person engaged in the business of banking, including a savings bank, savings and loan association, credit union, or trust compa…

12A:4-106. Payable through or payable at bank; collecting bank a. If an item states that it is "payable through" a bank identified in the item, the item designates the bank as a collecting bank and does not by itself authorize the bank to pay the item, and the item may be present…

12A:4-107. Separate office of bank A branch or separate office of a bank is a separate bank for the purpose of computing the time within which and determining the place at or to which action may be taken or notice or orders must be given under this chapter and under chapter 3. L.…

12A:4-108. Time of receipt of items a. For the purpose of allowing time to process items, prove balances, and make the necessary entries on its books to determine its position for the day, a bank may fix an afternoon hour of 2 P.M. or later as a cutoff hour for the handling of mo…

12A:4-109. Delays a. Unless otherwise instructed, a collecting bank in a good faith effort to secure payment of a specific item drawn on a payor other than a bank, and with or without the approval of any person involved, may waive, modify, or extend time limits imposed or permitt…

12A:4-110. Electronic presentment a. "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 descri…

12A:4-111. Statute of limitations An action to enforce an obligation, duty, or right arising under this chapter must be commenced within three years after the cause of action accrues. L.1995,c.28,s.2.

12A:4-201. Status of collecting bank as agent and provisional status of credits; applicability of chapter; item indorsed "pay any bank" a. 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, th…

12A:4-202. Responsibility for collection or return; when action is timely a. A collecting bank must exercise ordinary care in: (1) presenting an item or sending it for presentment; (2) sending notice of dishonor or nonpayment or returning an item other than a documentary draft to…

12A:4-203. Effect of instructions Subject to the provisions of chapter 3 concerning conversion of instruments (12A:3-420) and restrictive indorsements (12A:3-206), only a collecting bank's transferor can give instructions that affect the bank or constitute notice to it, and a col…

12A:4-204. Methods of sending and presenting; sending directly to payor bank a. 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 inv…

12A:4-205. Depositary bank holder of unindorsed item If a customer delivers an item to a depositary bank for collection: a. 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 the…

12A:4-206. Transfer between banks Any agreed method that identifies the transferor bank is sufficient for the item's further transfer to another bank. L.1995,c.28,s.2.

12A:4-207. Transfer warranties a. 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: (1) the warrantor is a person entitled to enforce the item; (2) all signa…

12A:4-208. Presentment warranties a. If an unaccepted draft is presented to the drawee for payment or acceptance and the drawee pays or accepts the draft, the person obtaining payment or acceptance, at the time of presentment, and a previous transferor of the draft, at the time o…

12A:4-209. Encoding and retention warranties a. 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 ba…

12A:4-210 Security interest of collecting bank in items, accompanying documents and proceeds. 12A:4-210. Security Interest of Collecting Bank in Items, Accompanying Documents and Proceeds. a. A collecting bank has a security interest in an item and any accompanying documents or t…

12A: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 12A:3-302 on…

12A:4-212. Presentment by notice of item not payable by, through, or at bank; liability of drawer or indorser 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…

12A:4-213. Medium and time of settlement by bank 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) th…

12A:4-214. Right of charge-back or refund; liability of collecting bank; return of item 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 …

12A:4-215. Final payment of item by payor bank; when provisional debits and credits become final; when certain credits become available for withdrawal 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) sett…

12A:4-216. Insolvency and preference 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 prese…

12A:4-301. Deferred posting; recovery of payment by return of items; time of dishonor; return of items by payor bank 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 …

12A:4-302. Payor bank's responsibility for late return of item 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 wh…

12A:4-303. When items are subject to notice, stop-payment order, legal process, or setoff; order in which items may be charged or certified a. Any knowledge, notice, or stop-payment order received by, legal process served upon, or setoff exercised by a payor bank comes too late t…

12A:4-401. When bank may charge customer's account 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 acco…

12A:4-402. Bank's liability to customer for wrongful dishonor; time of determining insufficiency of account 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…

12A:4-403. Customer's right to stop payment; burden of proof of loss 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…

12A:4-404. Bank not obliged 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 months after its date, but it may charge its customer's account f…

12A:4-405. Death or incompetence of customer 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…

12A:4-406. Customer's duty to discover and report unauthorized signature or alteration 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 pro…

12A: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…

12A: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 bee…

12A: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…

12A:4-503. Responsibility of presenting bank for documents and goods; report of reasons for dishonor; referee in case of need a. Unless otherwise instructed and except as provided in chapter 5 of Title 12A, a bank presenting a documentary draft: (1) must deliver the documents to …

12A:4-504. Privilege of presenting bank to deal with goods; security interest for expenses 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 otherw…