North Dakota Code 41-04-27 – (4-215) Final payment of item by payor bank – When provisional debits and credits become final – When certain credits become available for withdrawal
1. An item is finally paid by a payor bank when the bank has done any of the following, whichever happens first:
Terms Used In North Dakota Code 41-04-27
- following: when used by way of reference to a chapter or other part of a statute means the next preceding or next following chapter or other part. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
- 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.
- Rule: includes regulation. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
- 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.
a. Paid the item in cash.
b. Settled for the item without having a right to revoke the settlement under statute, clearinghouse rule, or agreement.
c. 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.
2. If provisional settlement for an item does not become final, the item is not finally paid.
3. 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 items by the payor bank.
4. If a collecting bank receives a settlement for an item which is or becomes final, the bank is accountable to its customer for the amount of the item and any provisional credit given for the item in an account with its customer becomes final.
5. Subject to applicable law stating a time for availability of funds and any 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:
a. If the bank has received a provisional settlement for the item, when such settlement becomes final and the bank has had a reasonable time to receive return of the item and has not received the item within that time.
b. If the bank 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.
6. Subject to applicable law stating a time for availability of funds and any 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.