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...(A) If a payor bank settles for a demand item other than a documentary draft presented otherwise than for immediate payment over the counter before midnight of the banking day of receipt, the payor bank may revoke the settlement and recover the settlement if before it has made final payment and before its midnight deadline it does any of the following: (1) It returns the item. (2) It returns an image of the item, ...

...(A) If an item is presented to and received by a payor bank, the bank is accountable for either of the following: (1) The amount of a demand item other than a documentary draft whether properly payable or not if the bank, in any case in which it is not also the depository bank, retains the item beyond midnight of the banking day of receipt without settling for it or, regardless of whether or not it is also the depos...

...(A) Any knowledge, notice, or stop payment order received by, legal process served upon or setoff exercised by a payor bank comes too late to terminate, suspend, or modify the bank's right or duty to pay an item or to charge its customer's account for the item if the knowledge, notice, stop payment order, or legal process is received or served and a reasonable time for the bank to act on that knowledge, notice, order...

...(A) A bank may charge against the account of a customer an item that is properly payable from that account even though the charge creates an overdraft. An item is properly payable if it is authorized by the customer and is in accordance with any agreement between the customer and bank. (B) A customer is not liable for the amount of an overdraft if the customer neither signed the item nor benefited from the proceeds ...

...(A) Except as otherwise provided in sections 1304.01 to 1304.40 of the Revised Code, a payor bank wrongfully dishonors an item if it dishonors an item that is properly payable, but a bank may dishonor an item that would create an overdraft unless it has agreed to pay the overdraft. (B) A payor bank is liable to its customer for damages proximately caused by the wrongful dishonor of an item. Liability is limited to a...

...(A) A customer, or any person authorized to draw on the account if there is more than one person, may stop payment of any item drawn on the customer's account or close the account by an order to the bank describing the item or account with reasonable certainty received at a time and in a manner that affords the bank a reasonable opportunity to act on it before any action by the bank with respect to the item described...

...A bank is under no obligation to a customer having a checking account to pay a check, other than a certified check, that is presented more than six months after its date, but it may charge its customer's account for a payment made in good faith after its date.

...(A) A payor or collecting bank's authority to accept, pay, or collect an item or to account for proceeds of its collection if otherwise effective is not rendered ineffective by incompetence of a customer of either bank existing at the time the item is issued or its collection is undertaken if the bank does not know of an adjudication of incompetence. Neither death nor incompetence of a customer revokes the authority ...

...(A) A bank that sends or makes available to a customer a statement of account showing payment of items for the account shall either return or make available to the customer the items paid or provide information in the statement of account sufficient to allow the customer reasonably to identify the items paid. The statement of account provides sufficient information if the item is described by item number, amount, and...

...If a payor bank has paid an item over the order of the drawer or maker to stop payment, after an account has been closed, or otherwise under circumstances giving a basis for objection by the drawer or maker, to prevent unjust enrichment and only to the extent necessary to prevent loss to the bank by reason of its payment of the item, the payor bank is subrogated to the rights of all of the following: (A) Any holder ...

...A bank that takes a documenatary draft for collection shall present or send the draft and accompanying documents for presentment and upon learning that the draft has not been paid or accepted in due course shall seasonably notify its customer of the fact even though it may have discounted or bought the draft or extended credit available for withdrawal as of right.

...If a draft or the relevant instructions require presentment "on arrival," "when goods arrive," or at a similar time related to the arrival of goods, the collecting bank need not present until in its judgment a reasonable time for arrival of the goods has expired. Refusal to pay or accept because the goods have not arrived is not dishonor. The bank shall notify its transferor of the refusal but is not required to pres...

...Unless otherwise instructed and except as provided in sections 1305.01 to 1305.16 of the Revised Code, both of the following apply to a bank presenting a documentary draft: (A) The bank must deliver the documents to the drawee on acceptance of the draft if it is payable more than three days after presentment or only on payment if it is not payable more than three days after presentment. (B) Upon dishonor, either in...

...(A) A presenting bank that, following the dishonor of a documentary draft, has seasonably requested instructions but does not receive them within a reasonable time may store, sell, or otherwise deal with the goods in any reasonable manner. (B) For its reasonable expenses incurred by action under division (A) of this section, the presenting bank has a lien upon the goods or their proceeds, which may be foreclosed in ...

...(A) As used in sections 1304.51 to 1304.85 of the Revised Code: (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 wi...

...Except as otherwise provided in section 1304.55 of the Revised Code, sections 1304.51 to 1304.85 of the Revised Code apply to funds transfers as defined in section 1304.51 of the Revised Code.

...(A) The time of receipt of a payment order or communication canceling or amending a payment order is determined by the rules applicable to receipt of a notice as provided in section 1301.202 of the Revised Code. A receiving bank may fix a cut-off time or times on a funds-transfer business day for the receipt and processing of payment orders and communications canceling or amending payment orders. Different cut-...

...Regulations of the board of governors of the federal reserve system and operating circulars of the federal reserve banks supersede any inconsistent provision of sections 1304.51 to 1304.85 of the Revised Code to the extent of the inconsistency.

...(A) Except as otherwise provided in division (B) of this section, sections 1304.51 to 1304.85 of the Revised Code do not apply to a funds transfer any part of which is governed by the "Electronic Fund Transfer Act," 92 Stat. 3728 (1978), 15 U.S.C.A. 1693, as amended. (B) Sections 1304.51 to 1304.85 of the Revised Code apply to a remittance transfer as defined in the "Electronic Fund Transfer Act," 124 Stat. 2...

..."Security procedure" means a procedure established by agreement of a customer and a receiving bank for the purpose of verifying that a payment order or communication amending or cancelling a payment order is that of the customer, or detecting error in the transmission or the content of the payment order or communication. A security procedure may require the use of algorithms or other codes, identifying words or numbe...

...apply: (a) The security procedure is a commercially reasonable method of providing security against unauthorized payment orders. (b) The bank proves that it accepted the payment order in good faith and in compliance with the security procedure and any written agreement or instruction of the customer restricting acceptance of payment orders issued in the name of the customer. (2) The bank is not required to follow ...

...(A) If an accepted payment order is not an authorized order of a customer identified as sender under division (A) of section 1304.57 of the Revised Code, but is effective as an order of the customer under division (B) of that section, both of the following apply: (1) By express written agreement, the receiving bank may limit the extent to which it is entitled to enforce or retain payment of the payment order. (2) T...

...(A) If a receiving bank accepts a payment order issued in the name of its customer as sender which is not authorized and not effective as the order of the customer under section 1304.57 of the Revised Code, or not enforceable, in whole or in part, against the customer under section 1304.58 of the Revised Code, the bank shall refund any payment of the payment order received from the customer to the extent the ba...

...(A) Division (B) of this section applies if an accepted payment order was transmitted pursuant to a security procedure for the detection of error, and any of the following applies: (1) The payment order erroneously instructed payment to a beneficiary not intended by the sender. (2) The payment order erroneously instructed payment in an amount greater than the amount intended by the sender. (3) The payment order wa...

...(A) If a payment order addressed to a receiving bank is transmitted to a funds-transfer system or other third-party communication system for transmittal to the bank, the system is deemed to be an agent of the sender for the purpose of transmitting the payment order to the bank. If there is a discrepancy between the terms of the payment order transmitted to the system and the terms of the payment order transmitted by ...