2006 Minnesota Statutes

336.4A-202 AUTHORIZED AND VERIFIED PAYMENT ORDERS.
(a) A payment order received by the receiving bank is the authorized order of the person
identified as sender if that person authorized the order or is otherwise bound by it under the
law of agency.
(b) If a bank and its customer have agreed that the authenticity of payment orders issued to
the bank in the name of the customer as sender will be verified pursuant to a security procedure, a
payment order received by the receiving bank is effective as the order of the customer, whether or
not authorized, if (i) the security procedure is a commercially reasonable method of providing
security against unauthorized payment orders, and (ii) the bank proves that it accepted the
payment order in good faith and in compliance with the security procedure and any written
agreement or instruction of the customer restricting acceptance of payment orders issued in the
name of the customer. The bank is not required to follow an instruction that violates a written
agreement with the customer or notice of which is not received at a time and in a manner affording
the bank a reasonable opportunity to act on it before the payment order is accepted.
(c) Commercial reasonableness of a security procedure is a question of law to be determined
by considering the wishes of the customer expressed to the bank, the circumstances of the
customer known to the bank, including the size, type, and frequency of payment orders normally
issued by the customer to the bank, alternative security procedures offered to the customer, and
security procedures in general use by customers and receiving banks similarly situated. A security
procedure is deemed to be commercially reasonable if (i) the security procedure was chosen by
the customer after the bank offered, and the customer refused, a security procedure that was
commercially reasonable for that customer, and (ii) the customer expressly agreed in writing to be
bound by any payment order, whether or not authorized, issued in its name and accepted by the
bank in compliance with the security procedure chosen by the customer.
(d) The term "sender" in this article includes the customer in whose name a payment order is
issued if the order is the authorized order of the customer under subsection (a), or it is effective as
the order of the customer under subsection (b).
(e) This section applies to amendments and cancellations of payment orders to the same
extent it applies to payment orders.
(f) Except as provided in this section and in section 336.4A-203(a)(1), rights and obligations
arising under this section or section 336.4A-203 may not be varied by agreement.
History: 1990 c 582 art 1 s 10