1.    In this chapter:

Terms Used In North Dakota Code 41-04.1-05

  • Authorized: when used with reference to a financing statement record, means that the financing statement record was filed by a person authorized to do so as provided in sections 41-09-80 and 41-09-130. See North Dakota Code 41-10-01
  • Beneficiary: A person who is entitled to receive the benefits or proceeds of a will, trust, insurance policy, retirement plan, annuity, or other contract. Source: OCC
  • following: when used by way of reference to a chapter or other part of a statute means the next preceding or next following chapter or other part. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
  • Person: means an individual, organization, government, political subdivision, or government agency or instrumentality. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49

a.    “Authorized account” means a deposit account of a customer in a bank designated by the customer as a source of payment of payment orders issued by the customer to the bank. If a customer does not so designate an account, any     account of the customer is an authorized account if payment of a payment order from that account is not inconsistent with a restriction on the use of that account.

b.    “Bank” means a person engaged in the business of banking and includes a savings bank, savings and loan association, credit union, and trust company. A branch or separate office of a bank is a separate bank for purposes of this chapter.

c.    “Customer” means a person, including a bank, having an account with a bank or from whom a bank has agreed to receive payment orders.

d.    “Funds-transfer business day” of a receiving bank means the part of a day during which the receiving bank is open for the receipt, processing, and transmittal of payment orders and cancellations and amendments of payment orders.

e.    “Funds-transfer    system”    means    a    wire    transfer    network,    automated clearinghouse, or other communication system of a clearinghouse or other association of banks through which a payment order by a bank may be transmitted to the bank to which the order is addressed.

f.    (Reserved).

g.    “Prove” with respect to a fact means to meet the burden of establishing the fact.

Subdivision h of subsection 2 of section 41-01-09.

2.    Other definitions applying to this chapter and the sections in which they appear are:

a.    “Acceptance”. Section 41-04.1-17. b.    “Beneficiary”. Section 41-04.1-03.

c.    “Beneficiary’s bank”. Section 41-04.1-03. d.    “Executed”. Section 41-04.1-21.

e.    “Execution date”. Section 41-04.1-21. f.    “Funds transfer”. Section 41-04.1-04.

g.    “Funds-transfer system rule”. Section 41-04.1-32. h.    “Intermediary bank”. Section 41-04.1-04.

i.    “Originator”. Section 41-04.1-04.

j.    “Originator’s bank”. Section 41-04.1-04.

k.    “Payment by beneficiary‘s bank to beneficiary”. Section 41-04.1-30. l.    “Payment by originator to beneficiary”. Section 41-04.1-31.

m.    “Payment by sender to receiving bank”. Section 41-04.1-28. n.    “Payment date”. Section 41-04.1-26.

o.    “Payment order”. Section 41-04.1-03. p.    “Receiving bank”. Section 41-04.1-03.

q.    “Security procedure”. Section 41-04.1-26. r.    “Sender”. Section 41-04.1-03.

3.    The following definitions in chapter 41-04 apply to this chapter:

a.    “Clearinghouse”. Section 41-04-04. b.    “Item”. Section 41-04-04.

c.    “Suspends payments”. Section 41-04-04.

4.    In addition, chapter 41-01 contains general definitions and principles of construction and interpretation applicable throughout this chapter.