Colo. Rev. Stat. § 4-4.5-105
Other definitions.
Effective Jul 1, 2013L. 90: Entire article added, p. 343, § 1, effective January 1, 1991. L. 2006: (a)(7) amended, p. 497, § 28, effective September 1. L. 2013: (a)(2) amended, (SB 13-154), ch. 282, p. 1468, § 18, effective July 1.
- (a) In this article:
- (1) 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 account of the customer is an authorized account if payment of a payment order from that account is not inconsistent with a restriction on the use of that account.
- (2) Bank means a person engaged in the business of banking and includes a savings bank, savings and loan association, credit union, and trust company. A branch or separate office of a bank is a separate bank for purposes of this article.
- (3) Customer means a person, including a bank, having an account with a bank or from whom a bank has agreed to receive payment orders.
- (4) Funds-transfer business day of a receiving bank means the part of a day during which the receiving bank is open for the receipt, processing, and transmittal of payment orders and cancellations and amendments of payment orders.
- (5) Funds-transfer system means a wire transfer network, automated clearing house, or other communication system of a clearing house or other association of banks through which a payment order by a bank may be transmitted to the bank to which the order is addressed.
- (6) Good faith means honesty in fact and the observance of reasonable commercial standards of fair dealing.
- (7) Prove with respect to a fact means to meet the burden of establishing the fact (section 4-1-201 (b)(8)).
(b) Other definitions applying to this article and the sections in which they appear are:
Acceptance.Section 4-4.5-209
Beneficiary.Section 4-4.5-103
Beneficiary's bank.Section 4-4.5-103
Executed.Section 4-4.5-301
Execution date.Section 4-4.5-301
Funds transfer.Section 4-4.5-104
Funds-transfer system rule.Section 4-4.5-501
Intermediary bank.Section 4-4.5-104
Originator.Section 4-4.5-104
Originator's bank.Section 4-4.5-104
Payment by beneficiary's bank to beneficiary.Section 4-4.5-405
Payment by originator to beneficiary.Section 4-4.5-406
Payment by sender to receiving bank.Section 4-4.5-403
Payment date.Section 4-4.5-401
Payment order.Section 4-4.5-103
Receiving bank.Section 4-4.5-103
Security procedure.Section 4-4.5-201
Sender.Section 4-4.5-103
(c) The following definitions in article 4 of this title apply to this article:
Clearing house.Section 4-4-104
Item.Section 4-4-104
Suspends payments.Section 4-4-104
- (d) In addition, article 1 contains general definitions and principles of construction and interpretation applicable throughout this article.
Source: L. 90: Entire article added, p. 343, § 1, effective January 1, 1991. L. 2006: (a)(7) amended, p. 497, § 28, effective September 1. L. 2013: (a)(2) amended, (SB 13-154), ch. 282, p. 1468, § 18, effective July 1.