1998 Minnesota Statutes

     336.4A-105 Other definitions. 

    (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 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) "Good faith" means honesty in fact and the observance 
 of reasonable commercial standards of fair dealing. 

    (7) "Prove" with respect to a fact means to meet the burden 
 of establishing the fact (section 336.1-201(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: 

    "Clearing house." Section 336.4-104. 

    "Item." Section 336.4-104. 

    "Suspends payments." Section 336.4-104. 

    (d) In addition, sections 336.1-101 to 336.1-209 contain 
 general definitions and principles of construction and 
 interpretation applicable throughout this article. 

    HIST: 1990 c 582 art 1 s 5; 1995 c 202 art 1 s 25