N.Y. Uniform Commercial Code 4-401 – When Bank May Charge Customer's Account
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Section 4–401. When Bank May Charge Customer's Account.
Terms Used In N.Y. Uniform Commercial Code 4-401
- Account: means any account with a bank and includes a
checking, time, interest or savings account;
(b) "Afternoon" means the period of a day between noon and
midnight;
(c) "Banking day" means that part of any day on which a bank is
open to the public for carrying on substantially all of its
banking functions;
(d) "Clearing house" means any association of banks or other
payors regularly clearing items;
(e) "Customer" means any person having an account with a bank or
for whom a bank has agreed to collect items and includes a
bank carrying an account with another bank;
(f) "Documentary draft" means any negotiable or non-negotiable
draft with accompanying documents, securities or other papers
to be delivered against honor of the draft;
(g) "Item" means any instrument for the payment of money even
though it is not negotiable but does not include money;
(h) "Midnight deadline" with respect to a bank is midnight on its
next banking day following the banking day on which it
receives the relevant item or notice or from which the time
for taking action commences to run, whichever is later;
(i) "Obligated bank" means the acceptor of a certified check, the
issuer of a cashier's check, or the drawer of a teller's
check;
(j) "Properly payable" includes the availability of funds for
payment at the time of decision to pay or dishonor;
(k) "Remitter" means the buyer from the obligated bank of a
cashier's check or a teller's check, and the drawer of a
certified check;
(l) "Settle" means to pay in cash, by clearing house settlement,
in a charge or credit or by remittance, or otherwise as
instructed. See N.Y. Uniform Commercial Code 4-104 - Properly payable: includes the availability of funds for
payment at the time of decision to pay or dishonor;
(k) "Remitter" means the buyer from the obligated bank of a
cashier's check or a teller's check, and the drawer of a
certified check;
(l) "Settle" means to pay in cash, by clearing house settlement,
in a charge or credit or by remittance, or otherwise as
instructed. See N.Y. Uniform Commercial Code 4-104
(1) As against its customer, a bank may charge against his account any item which is otherwise properly payable from that account even though the charge creates an overdraft.
(2) A bank which in good faith makes payment to a holder may charge the indicated account of its customer according to
(a) the original tenor of his altered item; or
(b) the tenor of his completed item, even though the bank knows
the item has been completed unless the bank has notice that
the completion was improper.