Mo. Rev. Stat. § 400.4A-105

Current with changes from the 2023 Legislative Session
Section 400.4A-105 - Other definitions
(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 clearinghouse, or other communication system of a clearinghouse 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 in the conduct or transaction concerned.
(7)"Prove" with respect to a fact means to meet the burden of establishing the fact (Section 400.1-201(8)).
(b) Other definitions applying to this Article and the sections in which they appear are:

"Acceptance",

section 400.4A-209;

"Beneficiary",

section 400.4A-103;

"Beneficiary's bank",

section 400.4A-103;

"Executed",

section 400.4A-301;

"Execution date",

section 400.4A-301;

"Funds transfer",

section 400.4A-104;

"Funds-transfer system rule",

section 400.4A-501;

"Intermediary bank",

section 400.4A-104;

"Originator",

section 400.4A-104;

"Originator's bank",

section 400.4A-104;

"Payment by beneficiary's bank to beneficiary",

section 400.4A-405;

"Payment by originator to beneficiary",

section 400.4A-406;

"Payment by sender to receiving bank",

section 400.4A-403;

"Payment date",

section 400.4A-401;

"Payment order",

section 400.4A-103;

"Receiving bank",

section 400.4A-103;

"Security procedure",

section 400.4A-201;

"Sender",

section 400.4A-103.

(c) The following definitions in Article 4 apply to this Article;

"Clearinghouse",

section 400.4-104;

"Item",

section 400.4-104;

"Suspends payments",

section 400.4-104.

(d) In addition Article 1 contains general definitions and principles of construction and interpretation applicable throughout this Article.

§ 400.4A-105, RSMo

L. 1992 S.B. 448, A.L. 1994 S.B. 701