Revised Code of Washington
Chapter 62A.4A - Funds Transfers.
62A.4A-105 - Other definitions.

RCW 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:

 
"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.

[ 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.

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