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ery instrument is payable at the time fixed therein without grace. When the day of maturity falls upon Sunday, Saturday or a holiday, the instrument is payable on the next succeeding business day which is not a Saturday. Where the day of maturity of the instrument falls on an optional bank holiday or the instrument would except for the foregoing provision be payable on an optional bank holiday and it is payable by or at a banking house or any branch or separate office thereof, and the particular banking house or branch or separate office thereof by or at which the instrument is payable is open for the transaction of business on such optional bank holiday, the holder of the instrument may at his option present the instrument for payment at the banking house or branch or separate office thereof by or at which the instrument is payable on the optional bank holiday or on the next succeeding business day which is not a Saturday. An instrument payable on demand is not to be presented for payment on Sunday, Saturday, or a holiday but is to be presented for payment on the next succeeding business day which is not a Saturday, except that where the instrument is payable by or at a banking house or
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13 Guam Code Ann. UNIFORM COMMERCIAL CODE
DIV. 3 COMMERCIAL PAPER
branch or separate office thereof and the particular banking house or branch or separate office thereof by or at which the instrument is payable is open for the transaction of business on an optional bank holiday, the holder of the instrument may at his option present the instrument for payment at the banking house or branch or separate office thereof by or at which the instrument is payable on such optional bank holiday or on the next succeeding business day which is not a Saturday. For the purpose of this section an optional bank holiday excludes those holidays enumerated in 1 Guam Code Ann. § 1000 and also excludes those special holidays created by 1 Guam Code Ann. §§ 1014 through 1017.
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