Section 62A.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 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:

(c) The following definitions in Article 4 (RCW 62A.4-101 through 62A.4-504) apply to this Article:

(d) In addition, Article 1 contains general definitions and principles of construction and interpretation applicable throughout this Article.

[ 2013 c 118 § 4; 2012 c 214 § 1201; 1991 sp.s. c 21 § 4A-105.]

NOTES:

Application—Savings—2012 c 214: See notes following RCW 62A.1-101.

2013 c 118 § 4; 2012 c 214 § 1201; 1991 sp.s. c 21 § 4A-105.