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Home » US Law » 2021 Tennessee Code » Title 47 - Commercial Instruments and Transactions » Chapter 4 - Bank Deposits and Collections » Part 2 - Collection of Items — Depositary and Collecting Banks

§ 47-4-202. Responsibility for Collection or Return — When Action Timely

A collecting bank must exercise ordinary care in: presenting an item or sending it for presentment; sending notice of dishonor or nonpayment or returning an item other than a documentary draft to the bank’s transferor after learning that the item has not been paid or accepted, as the case may be; settling for an item […]

§ 47-4-203. Effect of Instructions

Subject to chapter 3 of this title concerning conversion of instruments (§ 47-3-420) and restrictive endorsements (§ 47-3-206), only a collecting bank’s transferor can give instructions that affect the bank or constitute notice to it, and a collecting bank is not liable to prior parties for any action taken pursuant to the instructions or in […]

§ 47-4-204. Methods of Sending and Presenting — Sending Directly to Payor Bank

A collecting bank shall send items by a reasonably prompt method, taking into consideration relevant instructions, the nature of the item, the number of those items on hand, the cost of collection involved, and the method generally used by it or others to present those items. A collecting bank may send: an item directly to […]

§ 47-4-205. Depositary Bank Holder of Unendorsed Item

If a customer delivers an item to a depositary bank for collection: the depositary bank becomes a holder of the item at the time it receives the item for collection if the customer at the time of delivery was a holder of the item, whether or not the customer endorses the item, and, if the […]

§ 47-4-207. Transfer Warranties

A customer or collecting bank that transfers an item and receives a settlement or other consideration warrants to the transferee and to any subsequent collecting bank that: The warrantor is a person entitled to enforce the item; All signatures on the item are authentic and authorized; The item has not been altered; The item is […]

§ 47-4-208. Presentment Warranties

If an unaccepted draft is presented to the drawee for payment or acceptance and the drawee pays or accepts the draft, (i) the person obtaining payment or acceptance, at the time of presentment, and (ii) a previous transferor of the draft, at the time of transfer, warrant to the drawee that pays or accepts the […]

§ 47-4-209. Encoding and Retention Warranties

A person who encodes information on or with respect to an item after issue warrants to any subsequent collecting bank and to the payor bank or other payor that the information is correctly encoded. If the customer of a depositary bank encodes, that bank also makes the warranty. A person who undertakes to retain an […]

§ 47-4-213. Medium and Time of Settlement by Bank

With respect to settlement by a bank, the medium and time of settlement may be prescribed by Federal Reserve regulations or circulars, clearing-house rules, and the like, or agreement. In the absence of such prescription: the medium of settlement is cash or credit to an account in a Federal Reserve bank of or specified by […]

§ 47-4-216. Insolvency and Preference

If an item is in or comes into the possession of a payor or collecting bank that suspends payment and the item has not been finally paid, the item must be returned by the receiver, trustee, or agent in charge of the closed bank to the presenting bank or the closed bank’s customer. If a […]