57A-4A-105. Other definitions.
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(a)In this chapter:
(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 chapter.
(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 clearing house, or other communication system of a clearing house 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 (§ 57A-1-201(b)(8)).
(b)Other definitions applying to this chapter and the sections in which they appear are:
"Acceptance" § 57A-4A-209
"Beneficiary" § 57A-4A-103
"Beneficiary's bank" § 57A-4A-103
"Executed" § 57A-4A-301
"Execution date" § 57A-4A-301
"Funds transfer" § 57A-4A-104
"Funds-transfer system rule" § 57A-4A-501
"Intermediary bank" § 57A-4A-104
"Originator" § 57A-4A-104
"Originator's bank" § 57A-4A-104
"Payment by beneficiary's bank to beneficiary" § 57A-4A-405
"Payment by originator to beneficiary" § 57A-4A-406
"Payment by sender to receiving bank" § 57A-4A-403
"Payment date" § 57A-4A-401
"Payment order" § 57A-4A-103
"Receiving bank" § 57A-4A-103
"Security procedure" § 57A-4A-201
"Sender" § 57A-4A-103
(c)The following definitions in chapter 57A-4 apply to this chapter:
"Clearing house" § 57A-4-104
"Item" § 57A-4-104
"Suspends payments" § 57A-4-104
(d)In addition chapter 57A-1 contains general definitions and principles of construction and interpretation applicable throughout this chapter.