Current through 2024 First Special Session
Section 46-4A-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) "Banker" 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.(7) "Prove" with respect to a fact means to meet the burden of establishing the fact (section 1-201(b)(8)).(b) Other definitions applying to this article and the sections in which they appear are: (1) "Acceptance", §46-4A-209.(2) "Beneficiary", §46-4A-103.(3) "Beneficiary's bank", §46-4A-103.(4) "Executed", §46-4A-301.(5) "Execution date", §46-4A-301.(6) "Funds transfer", §46-4A-104.(7) "Funds-transfer system rule", §46-4A-501.(8) "Intermediary bank", §46-4A-104.(9) "Originator", §46-4A-104.(10) "Originator's bank", §46-4A-104.(11) "Payment by beneficiary's bank to beneficiary", §46-4A-405.(12) "Payment by originator to beneficiary", §46-4A-406.(13) "Payment by sender to receiving bank", §46-4A-403.(14) "Payment date", §46-4A-401.(15) "Payment order", §46-4A-103.(16) "Receiving bank", §46-4A-103.(17) "Security procedure", §46-4A-201.(18) "Sender", §46-4A-103.(c) The following definitions in article four of this chapter apply to this article: (1) "Clearing house", §46-4-104.(3) "Suspends payments", §46-4-104.(d) In addition, article one of this chapter contains general definitions and principles of construction and interpretation applicable throughout this article.