Methods of Sending and Presenting; Sending Directly to Payor Bank

1. Law
2. Georgia Code
3. Commercial Code
4. Bank Deposits and Collections
5. Collection of Items: Depositary and Collecting Banks
6. Methods of Sending and Presenting; Sending Directly to Payor Bank

1. A collecting bank shall send items by a reasonably prompt method, taking into consideration relevant instructions, the nature of the item, the number of those items on hand, the cost of collection involved, and the method generally used by it or others to present those items.
2. A collecting bank may send:
   1. An item directly to the payor bank;
   2. An item to a nonbank payor if authorized by its transferor; and
   3. An item other than documentary drafts to a nonbank payor, if authorized by federal reserve regulation or operating circular, clearing-house rule, or the like.
3. Presentment may be made by a presenting bank at a place where the payor bank or other payor has requested that presentment be made.

(Code 1933, § 109A-4 - 204, enacted by Ga. L. 1962, p. 156, § 1; Ga. L. 1963, p. 188, § 11; Ga. L. 1996, p. 1306, § 6.)

Law reviews.

- For article on the 1963 amendment (Ga. L. 1963, p. 189) to the Georgia Uniform Commercial Code, see 14 Mercer L. Rev. 378 (1963).

RESEARCH REFERENCES

Am. Jur. 2d.

- 11 Am. Jur. 2d, Banks and Financial Institutions, §§ 970, 980, 981.

C.J.S.

- 9 C.J.S., Banks and Banking, § 410.

U.L.A.

- Uniform Commercial Code (U.L.A.) § 4-204.

ALR.

- Measure of damages for breach of duty by bank in respect to collection of commercial paper, 19 A.L.R. 555; 67 A.L.R. 1511.

Liability of bank taking commercial paper for collection for default of correspondent, 44 A.L.R. 1430; 80 A.L.R. 815.

Trust in proceeds of collections made by charging debtor's account in collecting bank, 47 A.L.R. 761; 77 A.L.R. 473.

Bank's liability for payment or withdrawal on less than required number of signatures, 7 A.L.R.4th 655.

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