(a)

Terms Used In Tennessee Code 45-2-711

  • Bank: means any person, as hereinafter defined, doing a banking business subject to the laws of this or any other jurisdiction and, for the purposes of supervision, examination and liquidation, includes industrial investment companies and industrial banks authorized by chapter 5 of this title. See Tennessee Code 45-1-103
  • Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
  • Decedent: A deceased person.
  • Executor: A male person named in a will to carry out the decedent
  • Executor: includes an administrator, where the subject matter applies to an administrator. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
  • Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.
  • Person: means an individual, corporation, firm, trust, estate, partnership, joint venture, or association. See Tennessee Code 45-1-103
  • Personal representative: when applied to those who represent a decedent, includes executors and administrators, unless the context implies heirs and distributees. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • written: includes printing, typewriting, engraving, lithography, and any other mode of representing words and letters. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
(1) Notwithstanding § 30-2-317, where no executor or administrator of a decedent has qualified and given notice of the person‘s qualifications to the bank, or where the qualified executor or administrator of a decedent has been discharged and a check or checks made payable to the decedent or the decedent’s estate is presented to the bank for payment or collection, the bank may, in its discretion, and at any time after ninety (90) days from the death of the deceased, negotiate or send for collection and pay out the proceeds of one (1) or more checks made payable to the decedent or the decedent’s estate, whether written or electronic, all sums that do not exceed ten thousand dollars ($10,000) in the aggregate:

(A) To the executor named in any will known to the bank whether probated or not;
(B) To any personal representative appointed by a court whether active or discharged; or
(C) In the absence of knowledge of a purported will naming a surviving executor or an administrator to the:

(i) Surviving spouse; or
(ii) Next of kin.
(2) In the case of conflicting claims, the order of priority shall be that set out in subdivision (a)(1).
(b) The receipt of any guardian, administrator or executor, duly appointed or qualified by the courts of this state, or any other state, or of any spouse or next of kin acknowledging the negotiation, payment or transfer of funds of a check, standing in the name of the person whose estate the fiduciary represents, shall be a good and sufficient acquittance for payment or transfer and shall constitute a valid defense in favor of the bank against the demands or claims of all parties.
(c) The negotiation or payment of a check under this section without an endorsement of the payee or with the endorsement of a person authorized by this section to negotiate the check shall not be a violation of or give rise to any claim under title 47, chapter 3 or 4.
(d) No bank shall be liable for damages, penalty or tax by reason of any payment made pursuant to this section.
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