(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 clearinghouse, or other communication system of a clearinghouse 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 (RCW 62A.1-201(b)(8)).
(b) Other definitions applying to this Article and the sections in which they appear are:
| "Acceptance" | RCW 62A.4A-209 |
| "Beneficiary" | RCW 62A.4A-103 |
| "Beneficiary's bank" | RCW 62A.4A-103 |
| "Executed" | RCW 62A.4A-301 |
| "Execution date" | RCW 62A.4A-301 |
| "Funds transfer" | RCW 62A.4A-104 |
| "Funds-transfer system rule" | RCW 62A.4A-501 |
| "Intermediary bank" | RCW 62A.4A-104 |
| "Originator" | RCW 62A.4A-104 |
| "Originator's bank" | RCW 62A.4A-104 |
| "Payment by beneficiary's bank to beneficiary" | RCW 62A.4A-405 |
| "Payment by originator to beneficiary" | RCW 62A.4A-406 |
| "Payment by sender to receiving bank" | RCW 62A.4A-403 |
| "Payment date" | RCW 62A.4A-401 |
| "Payment order" | RCW 62A.4A-103 |
| "Receiving bank" | RCW 62A.4A-103 |
| "Security procedure" | RCW 62A.4A-201 |
| "Sender" | RCW 62A.4A-103 |
(c) The following definitions in Article 4 (RCW 62A.4-101 through 62A.4-504) apply to this Article:
| "Clearinghouse" | RCW 62A.4-104 |
| "Item" | RCW 62A.4-104 |
| "Suspends payments" | RCW 62A.4-104 |
(d) In addition, Article 1 contains general definitions and principles of construction and interpretation applicable throughout this Article.
[ 2013 c 118 § 4; 2012 c 214 § 1201; 1991 sp.s. c 21 § 4A-105.]
NOTES:
Application—Savings—2012 c 214: See notes following RCW 62A.1-101.