Oklahoma Code § 12A-4A-208

Title 12A. Uniform Commercial Code: Misdescription of intermediary bank or beneficiary's
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MISDESCRIPTION OF INTERMEDIARY BANK OR BENEFICIARY'S BANK
(a)  This subsection applies to a payment order identifying an
intermediary bank or the beneficiary's bank only by an identifying
number.
(1)  The receiving bank may rely on the number as the proper
identification of the intermediary or beneficiary's bank and need
not determine whether the number identifies a bank.
(2)  The sender is obliged to compensate the receiving bank for
any loss and expenses incurred by the receiving bank as a result of
its reliance on the number in executing or attempting to execute the
order.
(b)  This subsection applies to a payment order identifying an
intermediary bank or the beneficiary's bank both by name and an
identifying number if the name and number identify different
persons.
(1)  If the sender is a bank, the receiving bank may rely on the
number as the proper identification of the intermediary or
beneficiary's bank if the receiving bank, when it executes the
sender's order, does not know that the name and number identify
different persons.  The receiving bank need not determine whether
the name and number refer to the same person or whether the number
refers to a bank.  The sender is obliged to compensate the receiving
bank for any loss and expenses incurred by the receiving bank as a
result of its reliance on the number in executing or attempting to
execute the order.
(2)  If the sender is not a bank and the receiving bank proves
that the sender, before the payment order was accepted, had notice
that the receiving bank might rely on the number as the proper
identification of the intermediary or beneficiary's bank even if it
identifies a person different from the bank identified by name, the
rights and obligations of the sender and the receiving bank are
governed by paragraph (1) of subsection (b) of this section, as
though the sender were a bank.  Proof of notice may be made by any
admissible evidence.  The receiving bank satisfies the burden of
proof if it proves that the sender, before the payment order was
accepted, signed a record stating the information to which the
notice relates.
(3)  Regardless of whether the sender is a bank, the receiving
bank may rely on the name as the proper identification of the
intermediary or beneficiary's bank if the receiving bank, at the
time it executes the sender's order, does not know that the name and
number identify different persons.  The receiving bank need not
determine whether the name and number refer to the same person.
(4)  If the receiving bank knows that the name and number
identify different persons, reliance on either the name or the

number in executing the sender's payment order is a breach of the
obligation stated in paragraph (1) of subsection (a) of Section 22
of this act.

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