7-4-401
Section 7-4-401 When bank may charge customer's account. (a) A bank may charge against the
account of a customer an item that is properly payable from that account even though the charge
creates an overdraft. An item is properly payable if it is authorized by the customer and
is in accordance with any agreement between the customer and bank. (b) A customer is not liable
for the amount of an overdraft if the customer neither signed the item nor benefited from
the proceeds of the item, except that a bank may charge the amount of the overdraft, interest
thereon, and any applicable fee against deposits or other credits to the account, regardless
of the source of the deposits or credits. (c) A bank may charge against the account of a customer
a check that is otherwise properly payable from the account, even though payment was made
before the date of the check, unless the customer has given notice to the bank of the postdating
describing the check with reasonable certainty. The notice is...
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7-9A-102
Section 7-9A-102 Definitions and index of definitions. (a) Article 9A definitions. In this
article: (1) "Accession" means goods that are physically united with other goods
in such a manner that the identity of the original goods is not lost. (2) "Account,"
except as used in "account for," means a right to payment of a monetary obligation,
whether or not earned by performance, (i) for property that has been or is to be sold, leased,
licensed, assigned, or otherwise disposed of, (ii) for services rendered or to be rendered,
(iii) for a policy of insurance issued or to be issued, (iv) for a secondary obligation incurred
or to be incurred, (v) for energy provided or to be provided, (vi) for the use or hire of
a vessel under a charter or other contract, (vii) arising out of the use of a credit or charge
card or information contained on or for use with the card, or (viii) as winnings in a lottery
or other game of chance operated or sponsored by a State, governmental unit of a State, or...

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7-4-402
Section 7-4-402 Bank's liability to customer for wrongful dishonor; time of determining insufficiency
of account. (a) Except as otherwise provided in this article, a payor bank wrongfully dishonors
an item if it dishonors an item that is properly payable, but a bank may dishonor an item
that would create an overdraft unless it has agreed to pay the overdraft. (b) A payor bank
is liable to its customer for damages proximately caused by the wrongful dishonor of an item.
Liability is limited to actual damages proved and may include damages for an arrest or prosecution
of the customer or other consequential damages. Whether any consequential damages are proximately
caused by the wrongful dishonor is a question of fact to be determined in each case. (c) A
payor bank's determination of the customer's account balance on which a decision to dishonor
for insufficiency of available funds is based may be made at any time between the time the
item is received by the payor bank and the time that...
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7-4-214
Section 7-4-214 Right of charge-back or refund; liability of collecting bank; return of item.
(a) If a collecting bank has made provisional settlement with its customer for an item and
fails by reason of dishonor, suspension of payments by a bank, or otherwise to receive settlement
for the item which is or becomes final, the bank may revoke the settlement given by it, charge
back the amount of any credit given for the item to its customer's account, or obtain refund
from its customer, whether or not it is able to return the item, if by its midnight deadline
or within a longer reasonable time after it learns the facts it returns the item or sends
notification of the facts. If the return or notice is delayed beyond the bank's midnight deadline
or a longer reasonable time after it learns the facts, the bank may revoke the settlement,
charge back the credit, or obtain refund from its customer, but it is liable for any loss
resulting from the delay. These rights to revoke, charge back, and...
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7-4-303
Section 7-4-303 When items subject to notice, stop-payment order, legal process, or setoff;
order in which items may be charged or certified. (a) Any knowledge, notice, or stop-payment
order received by, legal process served upon, or setoff exercised by a payor bank comes too
late to terminate, suspend, or modify the bank's right or duty to pay an item or to charge
its customer's account for the item if the knowledge, notice, stop-payment order, or legal
process is received or served and a reasonable time for the bank to act thereon expires or
the setoff is exercised after the earliest of the following: (1) The bank accepts or certifies
the item; (2) The bank pays the item in cash; (3) The bank settles for the item without having
a right to revoke the settlement under statute, clearing-house rule, or agreement; (4) The
bank becomes accountable for the amount of the item under Section 7-4-302 dealing with the
payor bank's responsibility for late return of items; or (5) With respect to...
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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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7-4-406
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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7-4-404
Section 7-4-404 Bank not obligated to pay check more than six months old. A bank is under no
obligation to a customer having a checking account to pay a check, other than a certified
check, which is presented more than six months after its date, but it may charge its customer's
account for a payment made thereafter in good faith. (Acts 1965, No. 549, p. 811; repealed
by Acts 1995, No. 95-668, p. 1381, §2; added by Acts 1995, No. 95-668, p. 1381, §2.)...

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7-4-216
Section 7-4-216 Insolvency and preference. (a) 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. (b) If a payor bank finally pays an
item and suspends payments without making a settlement for the item with its customer or the
presenting bank which settlement is or becomes final, the owner of the item has a preferred
claim against the payor bank. (c) If a payor bank gives or a collecting bank gives or receives
a provisional settlement for an item and thereafter suspends payments, the suspension does
not prevent or interfere with the settlement's becoming final if the finality occurs automatically
upon the lapse of certain time or the happening of certain events. (d) If a collecting bank
receives from subsequent parties settlement for an item, which settlement...
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7-4-210
Section 7-4-210 Security interest of collecting bank in items, accompanying documents, and
proceeds. (a) A collecting bank has a security interest in an item and any accompanying documents
or the proceeds of either: (1) In case of an item deposited in an account, to the extent to
which credit given for the item has been withdrawn or applied; (2) In case of an item for
which it has given credit available for withdrawal as of right, to the extent of the credit
given, whether or not the credit is drawn upon or there is a right of charge-back; or (3)
If it makes an advance on or against the item. (b) If credit given for several items received
at one time or pursuant to a single agreement is withdrawn or applied in part, the security
interest remains upon all the items, any accompanying documents or the proceeds of either.
For the purpose of this section, credits first given are first withdrawn. (c) Receipt by a
collecting bank of a final settlement for an item is a realization on its...
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