§ 18-4-20. Deposit in name of fiduciary.
If a deposit is made in a bank to the credit of a fiduciary, the bank is authorized to pay the amount of the deposit or any part of it upon the check of the fiduciary, signed with the name in which the deposit is entered, without being liable to the principal, unless the bank pays the check with actual knowledge that the fiduciary is committing a breach of his or her obligation as fiduciary in drawing the check, or with knowledge of any facts that its action in paying the check amounts to bad faith. If, however, a check is payable to the drawee bank and is delivered to it in payment of or as security for a personal debt of the fiduciary to it, the bank is liable to the principal if the fiduciary in fact commits a breach of his or her obligation as fiduciary in drawing or delivering the check.
History of Section.P.L. 1960, ch. 147, § 3.
Structure Rhode Island General Laws
Chapter 18-4 - Powers of Fiduciaries
Section 18-4-1. - Application of cy pres doctrine.
Section 18-4-2. - Powers of trustees.
Section 18-4-3. - Arbitration.
Section 18-4-4. - Power of sale.
Section 18-4-5. - Effect of trustee’s receipt.
Section 18-4-6. - Conveyance by infant trustee.
Section 18-4-7. - Disposition of money payable to infant trustee.
Section 18-4-8. - Settlement of debts and claims — Assent of court.
Section 18-4-9. - Powers of surviving fiduciaries.
Section 18-4-10. - Management powers exercised with court approval.
Section 18-4-11. - Purposes for which borrowing authorized.
Section 18-4-12. - Leases authorized.
Section 18-4-13. - Parties to management proceedings — Guardians ad litem — Costs.
Section 18-4-14. - Binding effect of authorized transactions.
Section 18-4-15. - Definitions.
Section 18-4-16. - Payments or transfers to fiduciaries — Effect of misapplication by fiduciary.
Section 18-4-17. - Transfer of negotiable instrument by fiduciary.
Section 18-4-18. - Check drawn by fiduciary payable to third person.
Section 18-4-19. - Check drawn by and payable to fiduciary.
Section 18-4-20. - Deposit in name of fiduciary.
Section 18-4-21. - Deposit in fiduciary’s personal account.
Section 18-4-22. - Administration of trusts.
Section 18-4-23. - Charitable remainder trusts.
Section 18-4-24. - Termination of small trusts.
Section 18-4-25. - Consolidation or division of trusts.
Section 18-4-26. - Powers of fiduciaries in connection with environmental laws.
Section 18-4-27. - Validity of trusts.
Section 18-4-28. - Trustee’s power to adjust.
Section 18-4-29. - Total return unitrusts — Alternative definition of income.
Section 18-4-30. - Representation by person having substantially identical interest.