(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 and loan 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 clearing house, or other communication system of a clearing house 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 (6) [Repealed.] (7) "Prove" with respect to a fact means to meet the burden of establishing the fact (Section 1-201(b)(8)). (b) Other definitions applying to this Article and the sections in which they appear are: "Acceptance" Section 4A-209. "Beneficiary" Section 4A-103. "Beneficiary's bank" Section 4A-103. "Executed" Section 4A-301. "Execution date" Section 4A-301. "Funds transfer" Section 4A-104. "Funds-transfer system rule" Section 4A-501. "Intermediary bank" Section 4A-104. "Originator" Section 4A-104. "Originator's bank" Section 4A-104. "Payment by beneficiary's bank to beneficiary" Section 4A-405. "Payment by originator to beneficiary" Section 4A-406. "Payment by sender to receiving bank" Section 4A-403. "Payment date" Section 4A-401. "Payment order" Section 4A-103. "Receiving bank" Section 4A-103. "Security procedure" Section 4A-201. "Sender" Section 4A-103. (c) The following definitions in Article 4 apply to this Article: "Clearing house" Section 4-104. "Item" Section 4-104. "Suspends payments" Section 4-104. (d) In addition Article 1 contains general definitions and principles of construction and interpretation applicable throughout this Article.
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