La. Stat. tit. 10 § 4A-105
Current with changes from the 2024 legislative session effective on or before 7/1/2024, from Acts 2,3, 6-535, and 580-647
Section 10:4A-105 - Other definitions(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.(7) "Prove" with respect to a fact means to meet the burden of establishing the fact (R.S. 10:1-201(b)(8)).(b) Other definitions applying to this Chapter and the Sections in which they appear are: "Acceptance" | R.S. 10:4A-209 |
"Beneficiary" | R.S. 10:4A-103 |
"Beneficiary's bank" | R.S. 10:4A-103 |
"Executed" | R.S. 10:4A-301 |
"Execution date" | R.S. 10:4A-301 |
"Funds transfer" | R.S. 10:4A-104 |
"Funds-transfer system rule" | R.S. 10:4A-501 |
"Intermediary bank" | R.S. 10:4A-104 |
"Originator" | R.S. 10:4A-104 |
"Originator's bank" | R.S. 10:4A-104 |
"Payment by beneficiary's bank to beneficiary | R.S. 10:4A-405 |
"Payment by originator to beneficiary" | R.S. 10:4A-406 |
"Payment by sender to receiving bank" | R.S. 10:4A-403 |
"Payment date" | R.S. 10:4A-401 |
"Payment order" | R.S. 10:4A-103 |
"Receiving bank" | R.S. 10:4A-103 |
"Security procedure" | R.S. 10:4A-201 |
"Sender" | R.S. 10:4A-103 |
(c) The following definitions in Chapter 4 apply to this Chapter: "Clearing house" | R.S. 10:4-104 |
"Item" | R.S. 10:4-104 |
"Suspends payments" | R.S. 10:4-104 |
(d) In addition Chapter 1 contains general definitions and principles of construction and interpretation applicable throughout this Chapter.Added by Acts 1990, No. 1079, §4, eff. 9/1/1990. Amended by Acts 1993, No. 948, §3, eff. 1/1/1994; Acts 2006, No. 533, §4.