Montana Code 30-4-404. Bank not obligated to pay check more than 6 months old
30-4-404. Bank not obligated to pay check more than 6 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 6 months after its date, but it may charge its customer’s account for a payment made thereafter in good faith.
Terms Used In Montana Code 30-4-404
- account: means any deposit or credit account with a bank and includes a demand, time, savings, passbook, share draft, or like account, other than an account evidenced by a certificate of deposit;
(b)"afternoon" means the period of a day between noon and midnight;
(c)"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;
(d)"clearinghouse" means an association of banks or other payors regularly clearing items;
(e)"customer" means a person having an account with a bank or for whom a bank has agreed to collect items and includes a bank maintaining an account at another bank;
(f)"documentary draft" means a draft to be presented for acceptance or payment if specified documents, certificated securities (30-8-112) or instructions for uncertificated securities (30-8-112), or other certificates, statements, or the like are to be received by the drawee or other payor before acceptance or payment of the draft;
(g)"draft" means a draft as defined in 30-3-104 or an item, other than an instrument, that is an order;
(h)"item" means an instrument or a promise or an order to pay money handled by a bank for collection or payment. See Montana Code 30-4-104
- bank: means any person engaged in the business of banking, including a savings bank, savings and loan association, credit union, or trust company;
(2)"depositary bank" means the first bank to take an item even though it is also the payor bank, unless the item is presented for immediate payment over the counter;
(3)"payor bank" means a bank that is the drawee of a draft;
(4)"intermediary bank" means a bank to which an item is transferred in course of collection except the depositary or payor bank;
(5)"collecting bank" means a bank handling an item for collection except the payor bank;
(6)"presenting bank" means a bank presenting an item except a payor bank. See Montana Code 30-4-105
- Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.