(a) In this article: (1) "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. (2) "Bank" means a person engaged in the business of banking and includes a savings bank, savings association, credit union, and trust company. A branch or separate office of a bank is a separate bank for purposes of this article. (3) "Customer" means a person, including a bank, having an account with a bank or from whom a bank has agreed to receive payment orders. (4) "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. (5) "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. (6) (Reserved.) (7) "Prove" with respect to a fact means to meet the burden of establishing the fact (section 336.1-201 (b)(8)). (b) Other definitions applying to the article and the sections in which they appear: "Acceptance." Section 336.4A-209 . "Beneficiary." Section 336.4A-103 . "Beneficiary's bank." Section 336.4A-103 . "Executed." Section 336.4A-301 . "Execution date." Section 336.4A-301 . "Funds transfer." Section 336.4A-104 . "Funds-transfer system rule." Section 336.4A-501 . "Intermediary bank." Section 336.4A-104 . "Originator." Section 336.4A-104 . "Originator's bank." Section 336.4A-104 . "Payment by beneficiary's bank to beneficiary." Section 336.4A-405 . "Payment by originator to beneficiary." Section 336.4A-406 . "Payment by sender to receiving bank." Section 336.4A-403 . "Payment date." Section 336.4A-401 . "Payment order." Section 336.4A-103 . "Receiving bank." Section 336.4A-103 . "Security procedure." Section 336.4A-201 . "Sender." Section 336.4A-103 . (c) The following definitions in article 4 apply to this article: "Clearinghouse." Section 336.4-104 . "Item." Section 336.4-104 . "Suspends payments." Section 336.4-104 . (d) In addition, sections 336.1-101 to 336.1-206 contain general definitions and principles of construction and interpretation applicable throughout this article.
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