Connecticut General Statutes|Sec. 42a-4A-105. Other definitions.

                                                
Sec. 42a-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 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) “Prove” with respect to a fact means to meet the burden of establishing the fact.

(b) Other definitions applying to this article and the section in which they appear are:

“Acceptance”. Section 42a-4A-209.

“Beneficiary”. Section 42a-4A-103.

“Beneficiary's bank”. Section 42a-4A-103.

“Executed”. Section 42a-4A-301.

“Execution date”. Section 42a-4A-301.

“Funds transfer”. Section 42a-4A-104.

“Funds-transfer system rule”. Section 42a-4A-501.

“Intermediary bank”. Section 42a-4A-104.

“Originator”. Section 42a-4A-104.

“Originator's bank”. Section 42a-4A-104.

“Payment by beneficiary's bank to beneficiary”. Section 42a-4A-405.

“Payment by originator to beneficiary”. Section 42a-4A-406.

“Payment by sender to receiving bank”. Section 42a-4A-403.

“Payment date”. Section 42a-4A-401.

“Payment order”. Section 42a-4A-103.

“Receiving bank”. Section 42a-4A-103.

“Security procedure”. Section 42a-4A-201.

“Sender”. Section 42a-4A-103.

(c) The following definitions in article 4 apply to this article:

“Clearing house”. Section 42a-4-104.

“Item”. Section 42a-4-104.

“Suspends payments”. Section 42a-4-104.

(d) In addition, article 1 contains general interpretation applicable throughout this article.

(P.A. 90-202, S. 1(4A-105), 3; P.A. 05-109, S. 31.)