Utah Code § 70A-4-405

Death or incompetence of customer
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(1) A payor or collecting bank's authority to accept, pay or collect an item or to account for
proceeds of its collection, if otherwise effective, is not rendered ineffective by incompetence of
a customer of either bank existing at the time the item is issued or its collection is undertaken if
the bank does not know of an adjudication of incompetence. Neither death nor incompetence of
a customer revokes the authority to accept, pay, collect, or account until the bank knows of the
fact of death or of an adjudication of incompetence and has reasonable opportunity to act on it.
(2) Even with knowledge, a bank may for 10 days after the date of death pay or certify checks
drawn on or before that date unless ordered to stop payment by a person claiming an interest in
the account, and Subsection 70A-4-403(2) shall not be applicable to the stop payment order of
such person.

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