Montana Code 32-6-104. Consumer information — charge for use of electronic terminal
32-6-104. Consumer information — charge for use of electronic terminal. (1) A financial institution or its affiliate engaging in electronic funds transfers with its customers shall, prior to authorizing a customer to make electronic funds transfers, provide the customer with an itemized statement clearly setting forth, without limitation:
Terms Used In Montana Code 32-6-104
- Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
- Electronic funds transfer: The transfer of money between accounts by consumer electronic systems-such as automated teller machines (ATMs) and electronic payment of bills-rather than by check or cash. (Wire transfers, checks, drafts, and paper instruments do not fall into this category.) Source: OCC
- Electronic funds transfer: means any transfer of funds, other than a transaction originated by check, draft, or similar paper instrument that is initiated through an electronic terminal, telephone, computer, or magnetic tape for the purpose of ordering, instructing, or authorizing a financial institution to debit or credit an account. See Montana Code 32-6-103
- Electronic terminal: means an electronic device, other than a telephone operated by a consumer, through which a consumer may initiate an electronic funds transfer. See Montana Code 32-6-103
- Financial institution: means a bank chartered under chapter 1 of this title, a bank chartered under the National Banking Acts in Title 12 of the United States Code, a building and loan association chartered under chapter 2 of this title, a savings and loan association chartered under the Home Owners' Loan Act in Title 12 of the United States Code, a credit union chartered under chapter 3 of this title, or a credit union chartered under the Federal Credit Union Act in Title 12 of the United States Code. See Montana Code 32-6-103
- Merchant: means a natural person, corporation, partnership, or association engaged in buying and selling goods or services, except that a financial institution is not a merchant. See Montana Code 32-6-103
- Person: means an individual, partnership, corporation, association, or any other business organization. See Montana Code 32-6-103
- Satellite terminal: means any machine or device that is located off the premises of a financial institution and that a financial institution or its customers may use to carry out electronic funds transfers. See Montana Code 32-6-103
- State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Montana Code 1-1-201
- Unique identification device: means a magnetic encoded plastic card or equivalent device that contains either a number or a dollar balance, or both, that is unique to a customer and that is issued by a financial institution, merchant, or other person. See Montana Code 32-6-103
(a)the specific transactions that may be performed through satellite terminals;
(b)the charges, if any, for individual transactions made through a satellite terminal;
(c)minimum balance requirements, if any;
(d)the liability of the various parties for unauthorized transactions made by electronic funds transfer, with special emphasis upon the liability when the customer makes a personal identification number readily available for discovery in connection with theft or loss of the unique identification device and upon the importance of immediate notification to the institution of theft or loss;
(e)the legal status of receipts issued from a satellite terminal;
(f)the right of the customer to a description of transactions performed by satellite terminal on any periodic statement of account furnished the customer;
(g)the right of the customer to seek correction of an error that the customer believes has been made in the customer’s account by electronic funds transfer;
(h)instructions in maintaining customer records and reconciling balances and in the importance of retaining receipts of electronic funds transfers; and
(i)the economic significance of having no “float” time and no stop-payment authority.
(2)The customer shall sign a statement acknowledging acceptance of these terms and conditions and give the statement to the financial institution. A copy of the statement, countersigned by an officer of the financial institution, must be provided to the customer. In addition, the information set forth in subsection (1)(d) must be specifically acknowledged by the customer. The customer shall verify acknowledgment by signing the customer’s initials immediately adjacent to the information provided.
(3)(a) The owner of an electronic terminal may impose a surcharge for the use of its electronic terminal. The owner of an electronic terminal that elects to impose a surcharge for the use of its electronic terminal shall clearly advise the user of the electronic terminal, by a conspicuous disclosure on the terminal or through a message displayed on the electronic terminal screen, of the exact amount of the surcharge. The user must then be provided the option either to cancel the transaction, without incurring the surcharge, or to complete the transaction subject to the surcharge.
(b)An agreement by a financial institution to share or operate electronic terminals may not prohibit, limit, or restrict the right of the financial institution to charge a customer any fees allowed by state or federal law or to require a financial institution to waive any other rights or obligations it has under the laws of this state.
(4)A merchant or person other than a financial institution that issues a unique identification device to its customers for use at a point-of-sale terminal and that provides to the holders of the unique identification device a disclosure that satisfies the initial disclosures of terms and conditions under Regulation E of the federal Electronic Fund Transfer Act is considered to be in compliance with the disclosure requirements of this section.