A financial institution on request of an agent under an agency designation for an account may pay to the agent sums on deposit in the account, whether or not a party is a party with disabilities, incapacitated or deceased when the request is made or received, and whether or not the authority of the agent terminates on the disability or incapacity of a party.

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Terms Used In Arizona Laws 14-6224

  • Account: means a contract of deposit between a depositor and a financial institution and includes a checking account, savings account, certificate of deposit and share account. See Arizona Laws 14-6201
  • Agent: means a person who is authorized to make account transactions for a party. See Arizona Laws 14-6201
  • Disability: means cause for a protective order as described in section 14-5401. See Arizona Laws 14-1201
  • Financial institution: means an organization authorized to do business under state or federal laws relating to financial institutions and includes a bank, trust company, savings bank, building and loan association, savings and loan company or association and credit union. See Arizona Laws 14-6201
  • Incapacitated: means lacking the ability to manage property and business affairs effectively by reason of mental illness, mental deficiency, physical illness or disability, chronic use of drugs, chronic intoxication, confinement, detention by a foreign power, disappearance, minority or other disabling cause. See Arizona Laws 14-9101
  • Party: means a person who, by the terms of an account and subject to a request, has a present right other than as a beneficiary or agent to payment from the account. See Arizona Laws 14-6201
  • Request: means a request for payment that complies with all terms of the account, including special requirements concerning necessary signatures and rules of the financial institution, and that, if terms of the account condition payment on advance notice, is treated as immediately effective. See Arizona Laws 14-6201
  • Sums on deposit: means the balance payable on an account, including interest and dividends earned, whether or not included in the current balance and any deposit life insurance proceeds added to the account by reason of death of a party. See Arizona Laws 14-6201