7-4-209
Section 7-4-209 Encoding and retention warranties. (a) 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. (b) A person who undertakes to
retain an item pursuant to an agreement for electronic presentment warrants to any subsequent
collecting bank and to the payor bank or other payor that retention and presentment of the
item comply with the agreement. If a customer of a depositary bank undertakes to retain an
item, that bank also makes this warranty. (c) A person to whom warranties are made under this
section and who took the item in good faith may recover from the warrantor as damages for
breach of warranty an amount equal to the loss suffered as a result of the breach, plus expenses
and loss of interest incurred as a result of the breach. (Acts 1995, No....
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7-4-207
Section 7-4-207 Transfer warranties. (a) 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: (1) The warrantor is a person entitled to enforce the item; (2) All
signatures on the item are authentic and authorized; (3) The item has not been altered; (4)
The item is not subject to a defense or claim in recoupment (Section 7-3-305(a)) of any party
that can be asserted against the warrantor; and (5) The warrantor has no knowledge of any
insolvency proceeding commenced with respect to the maker or acceptor or, in the case of an
unaccepted draft, the drawer. (b) If an item is dishonored, a customer or collecting bank
transferring the item and receiving settlement or other consideration is obliged to pay the
amount due on the item (i) according to the terms of the item at the time it was transferred,
or (ii) if the transfer was of an incomplete item, according to its terms...
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7-4-302
Section 7-4-302 Payor bank's responsibility for late return of item. (a) If an item is presented
to and received by a payor bank, the bank is accountable for the amount of: (1) A demand item,
other than a documentary draft, whether properly payable or not, if the bank, in any case
in which it is not also the depositary bank, retains the item beyond midnight of the banking
day of receipt without settling for it or, whether or not it is also the depositary bank,
does not pay or return the item or send notice of dishonor until after its midnight deadline;
or (2) Any other properly payable item unless, within the time allowed for acceptance or payment
of that item, the bank either accepts or pays the item or returns it and accompanying documents.
(b) The liability of a payor bank to pay an item pursuant to subsection (a) is subject to
defenses based on breach of a presentment warranty (Section 7-4-208) or proof that the person
seeking enforcement of the liability presented or transferred...
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7-4-406
Section 7-4-406 Customer's duty to discover and report unauthorized signature or alteration.
(a) A bank that sends or makes available to a customer a statement of account showing payment
of items for the account shall either return or make available to the customer the items paid
or provide information in the statement of account sufficient to allow the customer reasonably
to identify the items paid. The statement of account provides sufficient information if the
item is described by item number, amount, and date of payment. (b) If the items are not returned
to the customer, the person retaining the items shall either retain the items or, if the items
are destroyed, maintain the capacity to furnish legible copies of the items until the expiration
of seven years after receipt of the items. A customer may request an item from the bank that
paid the item, and that bank must provide in a reasonable time either the item or, if the
item has been destroyed or is not otherwise obtainable, a...
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7-4-208
Section 7-4-208 Presentment warranties. (a) 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 draft in good faith
that: (1) The warrantor is, or was, at the time the warrantor transferred the draft, a person
entitled to enforce the draft or authorized to obtain payment or acceptance of the draft on
behalf of a person entitled to enforce the draft; (2) The draft has not been altered; and
(3) The warrantor has no knowledge that the signature of the purported drawer of the draft
is unauthorized. (b) A drawee making payment may recover from a warrantor damages for breach
of warranty equal to the amount paid by the drawee less the amount the drawee received or
is entitled to receive from the drawer because of the payment. In addition,...
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7-4-104
Section 7-4-104 Definitions and index of definitions. (a) In this article, unless the context
otherwise requires: (1) "Account" means any deposit or credit account with a bank,
including a demand, time, savings, passbook, share draft, or like account, other than an account
evidenced by a certificate of deposit; (2) "Afternoon" means the period of a day
between noon and midnight; (3) "Banking day" means the part of a day on which a
bank is open to the public for carrying on substantially all of its banking functions; (4)
"Clearing house" means an association of banks or other payors regularly clearing
items; (5) "Customer" means a person having an account with a bank or for whom a
bank has agreed to collect items, including a bank that maintains an account at another bank;
(6) "Documentary draft" means a draft to be presented for acceptance or payment
if specified documents, certificated securities (Section 7-8-102) or instructions for uncertificated
securities (Section 7-8-308), or...
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7-3-505
Section 7-3-505 Evidence of dishonor. (a) The following are admissible as evidence and create
a presumption of dishonor and of any notice of dishonor stated: (1) A document regular in
form as provided in subsection (b) which purports to be a protest; (2) A purported stamp or
writing of the drawee, payor bank, or presenting bank on or accompanying the instrument stating
that acceptance or payment has been refused unless reasons for the refusal are stated and
the reasons are not consistent with dishonor; (3) A book or record of the drawee, payor bank,
or collecting bank, kept in the usual course of business which shows dishonor, even if there
is no evidence of who made the entry. (b) A protest is a certificate of dishonor made by a
United States consul or vice consul, or a notary public or other person authorized to administer
oaths by the law of the place where dishonor occurs. It may be made upon information satisfactory
to that person. The protest must identify the instrument and...
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7-3-103
Section 7-3-103 Definitions. (a) In this article: (1) "Acceptor" means a drawee who
has accepted a draft. (2) "Drawee" means a person ordered in a draft to make payment.
(3) "Drawer" means a person who signs or is identified in a draft as a person ordering
payment. (4) "Good faith" means honesty in fact in the conduct or transaction concerned.
(5) "Maker" means a person who signs or is identified in a note as a person undertaking
to pay. (6) "Order" means a written instruction to pay money signed by the person
giving the instruction. The instruction may be addressed to any person, including the person
giving the instruction, or to one or more persons jointly or in the alternative but not in
succession. An authorization to pay is not an order unless the person authorized to pay is
also instructed to pay. (7) "Ordinary care" in the case of a person engaged in business
means observance of reasonable commercial standards, prevailing in the area in which the person
is located, with respect...
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7-3-206
Section 7-3-206 Restrictive indorsement. (a) An indorsement limiting payment to a particular
person or otherwise prohibiting further transfer or negotiation of the instrument is not effective
to prevent further transfer or negotiation of the instrument. (b) An indorsement stating a
condition to the right of the indorsee to receive payment does not affect the right of the
indorsee to enforce the instrument. A person paying the instrument or taking it for value
or collection may disregard the condition, and the rights and liabilities of that person are
not affected by whether the condition has been fulfilled. (c) If an instrument bears an indorsement
(i) described in Section 7-4-201(b), or (ii) in blank or to a particular bank using the words
"for deposit," "for collection," or other words indicating a purpose of
having the instrument collected by a bank for the indorser or for a particular account, the
following rules apply: (1) A person, other than a bank, who purchases the instrument...
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7-1-201
Section 7-1-201 General definitions. (a) [Reserved]. (b) Subject to additional definitions
contained in the subsequent articles of this title which are applicable to specific articles
or parts thereof, and unless the context otherwise requires, in this title: (1) "Action,"
in the sense of a judicial proceeding, includes recoupment, counterclaim, set-off, suit in
equity, and any other proceeding in which rights are determined. (2) "Aggrieved party"
means a party entitled to pursue a remedy. (3) "Agreement," as distinguished from
"contract," means the bargain of the parties in fact, as found in their language
or inferred from other circumstances, including course of performance, course of dealing,
or usage of trade as provided in Section 7-1-303. (4) "Bank" means a person engaged
in the business of banking and includes a savings bank, savings and loan association, credit
union, and trust company. (5) "Bearer" means a person in possession of a negotiable
instrument, document of title, or...
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