§ 26-1-4-104 — Definitions and index of definitions

(a) In IC 26-1-4, unless the context
otherwise requires:
(1) "Account" means any 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.
(2) "Afternoon" means the period of a day between noon and
midnight.
(3) "Banking day" means the part of a day on which a bank is
open to the public for carrying on substantially all of its banking
functions, but does not include Saturday, Sunday, or a legal
holiday.
(4) "Clearing house" means an association of banks or other
payors regularly clearing items.
(5) "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.
(6) "Documentary draft" means a draft to be presented for
acceptance or payment if specified documents, certificated
securities (IC 26-1-8.1-102), or instructions for uncertificated
securities (IC 26-1-8.1-102) or other certificates, statements, or
the like are to be received by the drawee or other payor before
acceptance or payment of the draft.
(7) "Draft" means a draft (as defined in IC 26-1-3.1-104) or an
item, other than an instrument, that is an order.
(8) "Drawee" means a person ordered in a draft to make payment.
(9) "Good faith" means honesty in fact in the conduct or
transaction concerned.
(10) "Item" means an instrument or a promise or order to pay
money handled by a bank for collection or payment. The term
does not include a payment order governed by IC 26-1-4.1 or a
credit or debit card slip.
(11) "Midnight deadline" with respect to a bank is midnight on its
next banking day following the banking day on which it receives
the relevant item or notice or from which the time for taking
action commences to run, whichever is later.
(12) "Settle" means to pay in cash, by clearing-house settlement,
in a charge or credit, or by remittance, or otherwise as instructed.
A settlement may be either provisional or final.
(13) "Suspends payments" with respect to a bank means that it has
been closed by order of the supervisory authorities, that a public
officer has been appointed to take it over, or that it ceases or
refuses to make payments in the ordinary course of business.
(b) Other definitions applying to IC 26-1-4 and the sections in which
they appear are:
"Agreement for electronic presentment". IC 26-1-4-110.
"Bank". IC 26-1-4-105.
"Collecting bank". IC 26-1-4-105.
"Depositary bank". IC 26-1-4-105.
"Intermediary bank". IC 26-1-4-105.
"Payor bank". IC 26-1-4-105.
"Presenting bank". IC 26-1-4-105.
"Presentment notice". IC 26-1-4-110.
(c) "Control" as provided in IC 26-1-7-106 and the following
definitions in IC 26-1-3.1 apply to IC 26-1-4:
"Acceptance". IC 26-1-3.1-409.
"Alteration". IC 26-1-3.1-407.
"Cashier's check". IC 26-1-3.1-104.
"Certificate of deposit". IC 26-1-3.1-104.
"Certified check". IC 26-1-3.1-409.
"Check". IC 26-1-3.1-104.
"Holder in due course". IC 26-1-3.1-302.
"Instrument". IC 26-1-3.1-104.
"Notice of dishonor". IC 26-1-3.1-503.
"Order". IC 26-1-3.1-103.
"Ordinary care". IC 26-1-3.1-103.
"Person entitled to enforce". IC 26-1-3.1-301.
"Presentment". IC 26-1-3.1-501.
"Promise". IC 26-1-3.1-103.
"Prove". IC 26-1-3.1-103.
"Record". IC 26-1-1-201(33b).
"Remotely-created consumer item". IC 26-1-3.1-103.
"Teller's check". IC 26-1-3.1-104.
"Unauthorized signature". IC 26-1-3.1-403.
(d) In addition, IC 26-1-1 contains general definitions and principles
of construction and interpretation applicable throughout IC 26-1-4.
Formerly: Acts 1963, c.317, s.4-104. As amended by
P.L.152-1986, SEC.209; P.L.263-1987, SEC.1; P.L.222-1993, SEC.9;
P.L.247-1995, SEC.6; P.L.143-2007, SEC.22; P.L.135-2009,
SEC.15.