(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 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 (RCW 62A.1-201(b)(8)). (b) Other definitions applying to this Article and the sections in which they appear are: "Acceptance" RCW 62A.4A-209 "Beneficiary" RCW 62A.4A-103 "Beneficiary's bank" RCW 62A.4A-103 "Executed" RCW 62A.4A-301 "Execution date" RCW 62A.4A-301 "Funds transfer" RCW 62A.4A-104 "Funds-transfer system rule" RCW 62A.4A-501 "Intermediary bank" RCW 62A.4A-104 "Originator" RCW 62A.4A-104 "Originator's bank" RCW 62A.4A-104 "Payment by beneficiary's bank to beneficiary" RCW 62A.4A-405 "Payment by originator to beneficiary" RCW 62A.4A-406 "Payment by sender to receiving bank" RCW 62A.4A-403 "Payment date" RCW 62A.4A-401 "Payment order" RCW 62A.4A-103 "Receiving bank" RCW 62A.4A-103 "Security procedure" RCW 62A.4A-201 "Sender" RCW 62A.4A-103 (c) The following definitions in Article 4 (RCW 62A.4-101 through 62A.4-504) apply to this Article: "Clearinghouse" RCW 62A.4-104 "Item" RCW 62A.4-104 "Suspends payments" RCW 62A.4-104 (d) In addition, Article 1 contains general definitions and principles of construction and interpretation applicable throughout this Article.
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