Revised Code of Washington
Chapter 62A.4 - Bank Deposits and Collections.
62A.4-104 - Definitions and index of definitions.

RCW 62A.4-104
Definitions and index of definitions.

(a) In this Article, unless the context otherwise requires:
(1) "Account" means any deposit or credit account with a bank, including a demand, time, savings, passbook, share draft, or like account, other than an account evidenced by a certificate of deposit;
(2) "Afternoon" means the period of a day between noon and midnight;
(3) "Banking day" means the part of a day on which a bank is open to the public for carrying on substantially all of its banking functions, except that it shall not include a Saturday, Sunday, or legal holiday;
(4) "Clearinghouse" means an association of banks or other payors regularly clearing items;
(5) "Customer" means a person having an account with a bank or for whom a bank has agreed to collect items, including a bank that maintains an account at another bank;
(6) "Documentary draft" means a draft to be presented for acceptance or payment if specified documents, certificated securities (RCW 62A.8-102) or instructions for uncertificated securities (RCW 62A.8-102), or other certificates, statements, or the like are to be received by the drawee or other payor before acceptance or payment of the draft;
(7) "Draft" means a draft as defined in RCW 62A.3-104 or an item, other than an instrument, that is an order;
(8) "Drawee" means a person ordered in a draft to make payment;
(9) "Item" means an instrument or a promise or order to pay money handled by a bank for collection or payment. The term does not include a payment order governed by Article 4A or a credit or debit card slip;
(10) "Midnight deadline" with respect to a bank is midnight on its next banking day following the banking day on which it receives the relevant item or notice or from which the time for taking action commences to run, whichever is later;
(11) "Settle" means to pay in cash, by clearing-house settlement, in a charge or credit or by remittance, or otherwise as agreed. A settlement may be either provisional or final;
(12) "Suspends payments" with respect to a bank means that it has been closed by order of the supervisory authorities, that a public officer has been appointed to take it over or that it ceases or refuses to make payments in the ordinary course of business.
(b) Other definitions applying to this Article and the sections in which they appear are:

 
"Agreement for electronic presentment"
RCW 62A.4-110.
 
"Bank"
RCW 62A.4-105.
 
"Collecting bank"
RCW 62A.4-105.
 
"Depositary bank"
RCW 62A.4-105.
 
"Intermediary bank"
RCW 62A.4-105.
 
"Payor bank"
RCW 62A.4-105.
 
"Presenting bank"
RCW 62A.4-105.
 
"Presentment notice"
RCW 62A.4-110.

(c) "Control" as provided in RCW 62A.7-106 and the following definitions in other articles apply to this Article:

 
"Acceptance"
RCW 62A.3-409.
 
"Alteration"
RCW 62A.3-407.
 
"Cashier's check"
RCW 62A.3-104.
 
"Certificate of deposit"
RCW 62A.3-104.
 
"Certified check"
RCW 62A.3-409.
 
"Check"
RCW 62A.3-104.
 
"Draft"
RCW 62A.3-104.
 
"Holder in due course"
RCW 62A.3-302.
 
"Instrument"
RCW 62A.3-104.
 
"Notice of dishonor"
RCW 62A.3-503.
 
"Order"
RCW 62A.3-103.
 
"Ordinary care"
RCW 62A.3-103.
 
"Person entitled to enforce"
RCW 62A.3-301.
 
"Presentment"
RCW 62A.3-501.
 
"Promise"
RCW 62A.3-103.
 
"Prove"
RCW 62A.3-103.
 
"Teller's check"
RCW 62A.3-104.
 
"Unauthorized signature"
RCW 62A.3-403.

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

[ 2012 c 214 § 1101; 1995 c 48 § 56; 1993 c 229 § 80; 1981 c 122 § 1; 1965 ex.s. c 157 § 4-104. Cf. former RCW 30.52.010; 1955 c 33 § 30.52.010; prior: 1929 c 203 § 1; RRS § 3292-1.]
NOTES:

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


Savings—1995 c 48: See RCW 62A.8-601.


Effective date—1995 c 48: See RCW 62A.11-113.


Recovery of attorneys' fees—Effective date—1993 c 229: See RCW 62A.11-111 and 62A.11-112.


Construction—1981 c 122: "Nothing in this 1981 amendatory act shall be construed to preclude any bank from being open to the public for carrying on its banking functions on Saturdays or Sundays." [ 1981 c 122 § 2.] "this 1981 amendatory act" consists of the 1981 amendment to RCW 62A.4-104.

Structure Revised Code of Washington

Revised Code of Washington

Title 62A - Uniform Commercial Code

Chapter 62A.4 - Bank Deposits and Collections.

62A.4-101 - Short title.

62A.4-102 - Applicability.

62A.4-103 - Variation by agreement; measure of damages; action constituting ordinary care.

62A.4-104 - Definitions and index of definitions.

62A.4-105 - "Bank"; "depositary bank"; "payor bank"; "intermediary bank"; "collecting bank"; "presenting bank".

62A.4-106 - Payable through or payable at bank; collecting bank.

62A.4-107 - Separate office of a bank.

62A.4-108 - Time of receipt of items.

62A.4-109 - Delays.

62A.4-110 - Electronic presentment.

62A.4-111 - Statute of limitations.

62A.4-201 - Status of collecting bank as agent and provisional status of credits; applicability of article; item indorsed "pay any bank".

62A.4-202 - Responsibility for collection or return; when action timely.

62A.4-203 - Effect of instructions.

62A.4-204 - Methods of sending and presenting; sending directly to payor bank.

62A.4-205 - Depositary bank holder of unindorsed item.

62A.4-206 - Transfer between banks.

62A.4-207 - Transfer warranties.

62A.4-208 - Presentment warranties.

62A.4-209 - Encoding and retention warranties.

62A.4-210 - Security interest of collecting bank in items, accompanying documents and proceeds.

62A.4-211 - When bank gives value for purposes of holder in due course.

62A.4-212 - Presentment by notice of item not payable by, through, or at a bank; liability of drawer or indorser.

62A.4-213 - Medium and time of settlement by bank.

62A.4-214 - Right of charge-back or refund; liability of collecting bank; return of item.

62A.4-215 - Final payment of item by payor bank; when provisional debits and credits become final; when certain credits become available for withdrawal.

62A.4-216 - Insolvency and preference.

62A.4-301 - Deferred posting; recovery of payment by return of items; time of dishonor; return of items by payor bank.

62A.4-302 - Payor bank's responsibility for late return of item.

62A.4-303 - When items subject to notice, stop-payment order, legal process, or setoff; order in which items may be charged or certified.

62A.4-401 - When bank may charge customer's account.

62A.4-402 - Bank's liability to customer for wrongful dishonor; time of determining insufficiency of account.

62A.4-403 - Customer's right to stop payment; burden of proof of loss.

62A.4-404 - Bank not obligated to pay check more than six months old.

62A.4-405 - Death or incompetence of customer.

62A.4-406 - Customer's duty to discover and report unauthorized signature or alteration.

62A.4-407 - Payor bank's right to subrogation on improper payment.

62A.4-501 - Handling of documentary drafts; duty to send for presentment and to notify customer of dishonor.

62A.4-502 - Presentment of "on arrival" drafts.

62A.4-503 - Responsibility of presenting bank for documents and goods; report of reasons for dishonor; referee in case of need.

62A.4-504 - Privilege of presenting bank to deal with goods; security interest for expenses.