UNIFORM COMMERCIAL CODE (EXCERPT)
Act 174 of 1962
440.4104 Definitions used in article.Sec. 4104.
(1) As used in this article unless the context otherwise requires:
(a) "Account" means any depositor 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.
(b) "Afternoon" means the period of a day between noon and midnight.
(c) "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.
(d) "Clearing-house" means an association of banks or other payors regularly clearing items.
(e) "Customer" means any 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.
(f) "Documentary draft" means a draft to be presented for acceptance or payment if specified documents, certificated securities as defined in section 8102 or instructions for uncertificated securities as defined in section 8102, or other certificates, statements, or the like are to be received by the drawee or other payor before acceptance or payment of the draft.
(g) "Draft" means a draft as defined in section 3104 or an item, other than an instrument, that is an order.
(h) "Drawee" means a person ordered in a draft to make payment.
(i) "Item" means an instrument or a promise or order to pay money handled by a bank for collection or pay. The term does not include a payment order governed by article 4a or a credit or debit card slip.
(j) "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.
(k) "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.
(l) "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.
(2) Other definitions applying to this article and the sections in which they appear are:
"Agreement
for electronic presentment". |
Section
4110. |
"Collecting
bank". |
Section
4105. |
"Depositary
bank". |
Section
4105. |
"Intermediary
bank". |
Section
4105. |
"Payor
bank". |
Section
4105. |
"Presenting
bank". |
Section
4105. |
"Presentment
notice". |
Section
4110. |
(3) "Control" as provided in section 7106 and the following definitions in other articles apply to this article:
"Acceptance". |
Section
3409. |
"Alteration". |
Section
3409. |
"Certificate
of deposit". |
Section
3104. |
"Cashier's
check". |
Section
3104. |
"Certified
check". |
Section
3409. |
"Check". |
Section
3104. |
"Draft". |
Section
3104. |
"Holder
in due course". |
Section
3302. |
"Instrument". |
Section
3104. |
"Notice
of dishonor". |
Section
3503. |
"Order". |
Section
3103. |
"Ordinary
care". |
Section
3103. |
"Person
entitled to enforce". |
Section
3301. |
"Presentment". |
Section
3501. |
"Promise". |
Section
3103. |
"Prove". |
Section
3103. |
"Remotely
created consumer item". |
Section
3103. |
"Teller's
check". |
Section
3104. |
"Unauthorized
signature". |
Section
3403. |
(4) In addition, article 1 contains general definitions and principles of construction and interpretation applicable throughout this article.
History: 1962, Act 174, Eff. Jan. 1, 1964
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Am. 1993, Act 130, Eff. Sept. 30, 1993
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Am. 1998, Act 278, Imd. Eff. July 27, 1998
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Am. 2012, Act 87, Eff. July 1, 2013
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Am. 2014, Act 103, Imd. Eff. Apr. 10, 2014
Rendered 8/15/2025 1:05 PM
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