- In this chapter:
- “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;
- “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;
- “Customer” means a person, including a bank, having an account with a bank or from whom a bank has agreed to receive payment orders;
- “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;
- “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;
- “Good faith” means honesty in fact and the observance of reasonable commercial standards of fair dealing; and
- “Prove” with respect to a fact means to meet the burden of establishing the fact (§ 47-1-201(b)(8)).
- 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
- 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
- In addition, chapter 1 of this title contains general definitions and principles of construction and interpretation applicable throughout this chapter.