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Home » US Law » 2022 Georgia Code » Title 11 - Commercial Code » Article 4A - Funds Transfers » Part 2 - Issue and Acceptance of Payment Order

§ 11-4A-201. Security Procedure

“Security procedure” means a procedure established by agreement of a customer and a receiving bank for the purpose of (i) verifying that a payment order or communication amending or canceling a payment order is that of the customer, or (ii) detecting error in the transmission or the content of the payment order or communication. A […]

§ 11-4A-202. Authorized and Verified Payment Orders

A payment order received by the receiving bank is the authorized order of the person identified as sender if that person authorized the order or is otherwise bound by it under the law of agency. If a bank and its customer have agreed that the authenticity of payment orders issued to the bank in the […]

§ 11-4A-203. Unenforceability of Certain Verified Payment Orders

If an accepted payment order is not, under Code Section 11-4A-202(a), an authorized order of a customer identified as sender, but is effective as an order of the customer pursuant to Code Section 11-4A-202(b), the following rules apply: By express written agreement, the receiving bank may limit the extent to which it is entitled to […]

§ 11-4A-205. Erroneous Payment Orders

If an accepted payment order was transmitted pursuant to a security procedure for the detection of error and the payment order (i) erroneously instructed payment to a beneficiary not intended by the sender, (ii) erroneously instructed payment in an amount greater than the amount intended by the sender, or (iii) was an erroneously transmitted duplicate […]

§ 11-4A-207. Misdescription of Beneficiary

Subject to subsection (b), if, in a payment order received by the beneficiary’s bank, the name, bank account number, or other identification of the beneficiary refers to a nonexistent or unidentifiable person or account, no person has rights as a beneficiary of the order and acceptance of the order cannot occur. If a payment order […]

§ 11-4A-208. Misdescription of Intermediary Bank or Beneficiary’s Bank

This subsection applies to a payment order identifying an intermediary bank or the beneficiary’s bank only by an identifying number. The receiving bank may rely on the number as the proper identification of the intermediary or beneficiary’s bank and need not determine whether the number identifies a bank. The sender is obliged to compensate the […]

§ 11-4A-209. Acceptance of Payment Order

Subject to subsection (d), a receiving bank other than the beneficiary’s bank accepts a payment order when it executes the order. Subject to subsections (c) and (d), a beneficiary’s bank accepts a payment order at the earliest of the following times: When the bank (i) pays the beneficiary as stated in Code Section 11-4A-405(a) or […]

§ 11-4A-210. Rejection of Payment Order

A payment order is rejected by the receiving bank by a notice of rejection transmitted to the sender orally, electronically, or in writing.  A notice of rejection need not use any particular words and is sufficient if it indicates that the receiving bank is rejecting the order or will not execute or pay the order.  […]

§ 11-4A-211. Cancellation and Amendment of Payment Order

A communication of the sender of a payment order canceling or amending the order may be transmitted to the receiving bank orally, electronically, or in writing. If a security procedure is in effect between the sender and the receiving bank, the communication is not effective to cancel or amend the order unless the communication is […]