(a) In this chapter:
- (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 chapter.
- (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 (§ 6A-1-201(8)).
(b) Other definitions applying to this chapter and the sections in which they appear are:
| “Acceptance” | § 6A-4.1-209 |
| “Beneficiary” | § 6A-4.1-103 |
| “Beneficiary’s bank” | § 6A-4.1-103 |
| “Executed” | § 6A-4.1-301 |
| “Executed date” | § 6A-4.1-301 |
| “Funds transfer” | § 6A-4.1-104 |
| “Funds-transfer system rule” | § 6A-4.1-501 |
| “Intermediary bank” | § 6A-4.1-104 |
| “Originator” | § 6A-4.1-104 |
| “Originator’s bank” | § 6A-4.1-104 |
| “Payment by beneficiary’s bank to beneficiary” | § 6A-4.1-405 |
| “Payment by originator to beneficiary” | § 6A-4.1-406 |
| “Payment by sender to receiving bank” | § 6A-4.1-403 |
| “Payment date” | § 6A-4.1-401 |
| “Payment order” | § 6A-4.1-103 |
| “Receiving bank” | § 6A-4.1-103 |
| “Security procedure” | § 6A-4.1-201 |
| “Sender” | § 6A-4.1-103 |
(c) The following definitions in chapter 4 apply to this chapter;
| “Clearing house” | § 6A-4-104 |
| “Item” | § 6A-4-104 |
| “Suspends payments” | § 6A-4-104 |
- (d) In addition part one contains general definitions and principles of construction and interpretation applicable throughout this chapter.
History of Section.
P.L. 1991, ch. 189, § 1.