(a) An item is finally paid by a payor bank when the bank has first

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Terms Used In Alaska Statutes 45.04.215

  • account: means a deposit or 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. See Alaska Statutes 45.04.104
  • banking day: means that part of a day on which a bank is open to the public for carrying on substantially all of its banking functions. See Alaska Statutes 45.04.104
  • clearinghouse: means an association of banks or other payors regularly clearing items. See Alaska Statutes 45.04.104
  • customer: means a 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. See Alaska Statutes 45.04.104
  • item: means an instrument or a promise or order to pay money handled by a bank for collection or payment. See Alaska Statutes 45.04.104
  • Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
  • Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
  • Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
(1) paid the item in cash;
(2) settled for the item without having a right to revoke the settlement under statute, clearinghouse rule, or agreement; or
(3) made a provisional settlement for the item and failed to revoke the settlement in the time and manner permitted by statute, clearinghouse rule, or agreement.
(b) If provisional settlement for an item does not become final, the item is not finally paid.
(c) If provisional settlement for an item between the presenting and payor banks is made through a clearinghouse or by debits or credits in an account between them, then, to the extent that provisional debits or credits for the item are entered in accounts between the presenting and payor banks or between the presenting and successive prior collecting banks seriatim, they become final upon final payment of the item by the payor bank.
(d) If a collecting bank receives a settlement for an item that is or becomes final, the bank is accountable to its customer for the amount of the item and a provisional credit given for the item in an account with its customer becomes final.
(e) Subject to applicable law stating a time for availability of funds and a right of the bank to apply the credit to an obligation of the customer, credit given by a bank for an item in a customer’s account becomes available for withdrawal as of right if the bank

(1) has received a provisional settlement for the item, when the settlement becomes final and the bank has had a reasonable time to receive return of the item and the item has not been received within that time;
(2) is both the depositary bank and the payor bank, and the item is finally paid, at the opening of the bank’s second banking day following receipt of the item.
(f) Subject to applicable law stating a time for availability of funds and a right of a bank to apply a deposit to an obligation of the depositor, a deposit of money becomes available for withdrawal as of right at the opening of the bank’s next banking day after receipt of the deposit.
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