New Jersey Statutes 12A:4-209. Encoding and retention warranties
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Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 12A:4-209
- Bank: means a person engaged in the business of banking, including a savings bank, savings and loan association, credit union, or trust company. See New Jersey Statutes 12A:4-105
- Collecting bank: means a bank handling an item for collection except the payor bank. See New Jersey Statutes 12A:4-105
- 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. See New Jersey Statutes 12A:4-104
- Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
- 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. See New Jersey Statutes 12A:4-105
- Item: means an instrument or a promise or order to pay money handled by a bank for collection or payment. See New Jersey Statutes 12A:4-104
- Payor bank: means a bank that is the drawee of a draft. See New Jersey Statutes 12A:4-105
- person: includes corporations, companies, associations, societies, firms, partnerships and joint stock companies as well as individuals, unless restricted by the context to an individual as distinguished from a corporate entity or specifically restricted to one or some of the above enumerated synonyms and, when used to designate the owner of property which may be the subject of an offense, includes this State, the United States, any other State of the United States as defined infra and any foreign country or government lawfully owning or possessing property within this State. See New Jersey Statutes 1:1-2
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.
L.1995,c.28,s.2.