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  1. 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 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 and the observance of reasonable commercial standards of fair dealing; and
    7. “Prove” with respect to a fact means to meet the burden of establishing the fact (§ 47-1-201(b)(8)).
  2. Other definitions applying to this chapter and the sections in which they appear are:

    “Acceptance”  § 47-4A-209

    “Beneficiary”  § 47-4A-103

    “Beneficiary’s bank”  § 47-4A-103

    “Executed”  § 47-4A-301

    “Execution date”  § 47-4A-301

    “Funds transfer”  § 47-4A-104

    “Funds-transfer system rule”  § 47-4A-501

    “Intermediary bank”  § 47-4A-104

    “Originator”  § 47-4A-104

    “Originator’s bank”  § 47-4A-104

    “Payment by beneficiary’s bank to beneficiary”  § 47-4A-405

    “Payment by originator to beneficiary”  § 47-4A-406

    “Payment by sender to receiving bank”  § 47-4A-403

    “Payment date”  § 47-4A-401

    “Payment order”  § 47-4A-103

    “Receiving bank”  § 47-4A-103

    “Security procedure”  § 47-4A-201

    “Sender”  § 47-4A-103

  3. The following definitions in chapter 4 of this title apply to this chapter:

    “Clearinghouse”  § 47-4-104

    “Item”  § 47-4-104

    “Suspends payments”  § 47-4-104

  4. In addition, chapter 1 of this title contains general definitions and principles of construction and interpretation applicable throughout this chapter.