C.R.S. Section 4-4-104
Definitions and index of definitions

(a)

In this article, 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, excluding Saturday, Sunday, and holidays, on which a bank is open to the public for carrying on substantially all of its banking functions;

(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 (section 4-8-102) or instruction for uncertificated securities (section 4-8-102), 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 section 4-3-104 or an item, other than an instrument, that is an order;

(8)

“Drawee” means a person ordered in a draft to make payment;

(9)

“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 article 4.5 of this title or a credit or debit card slip;

(10)

“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;

(11)

“Settle” means to pay in cash, by clearing-house settlement, in a charge or credit, or by remittance, or otherwise as agreed. A settlement may be either provisional or final;

(12)

“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 this article and the sections in which they appear are:
“Agreement for electronic presentment”
Section 4-4-110
“Bank”
Section 4-4-105
“Collecting bank”
Section 4-4-105
“Depositary bank”
Section 4-4-105
“Intermediary bank”
Section 4-4-105
“Payor bank”
Section 4-4-105
“Presenting bank”
Section 4-4-105
“Presentment notice”
Section 4-4-110

(c)

“Control” as provided in section 4-7-106 and the following definitions in other articles of this title apply to this article:
“Acceptance”
Section 4-3-409
“Alteration”
Section 4-3-407
“Cashier’s check”
Section 4-3-104
“Certificate of deposit”
Section 4-3-104
“Certified check”
Section 4-3-409
“Check”
Section 4-3-104
“Good faith”
Section 4-3-103
“Holder in due course”
Section 4-3-302
“Instrument”
Section 4-3-104
“Notice of dishonor”
Section 4-3-503
“Order”
Section 4-3-103
“Ordinary care”
Section 4-3-103
“Person entitled to enforce”
Section 4-3-301
“Presentment”
Section 4-3-501
“Promise”
Section 4-3-103
“Prove”
Section 4-3-103
“Teller’s check”
Section 4-3-104
“Unauthorized signature”
Section 4-3-403

(d)

In addition, article 1 of this title contains general definitions and principles of construction and interpretation applicable throughout this article.

Source: Section 4-4-104 — Definitions and index of definitions, https://leg.­colorado.­gov/sites/default/files/images/olls/crs2023-title-04.­pdf (accessed Oct. 20, 2023).

4‑4‑101
Short title 4‑4‑102
Applicability 4‑4‑103
Variation by agreement - measure of damages - action constituting ordinary care 4‑4‑104
Definitions and index of definitions 4‑4‑105
“Bank” - “depositary bank” - “intermediary bank” - “collecting bank” - “payor bank” - “presenting bank” 4‑4‑106
Payable through or payable at bank - collecting bank 4‑4‑107
Separate office of bank 4‑4‑108
Time of receipt of items 4‑4‑109
Delays 4‑4‑110
Electronic presentment 4‑4‑111
Statute of limitations 4‑4‑201
Status of collecting banks as agent and provisional status of credits - applicability of article - item indorsed “pay any bank” 4‑4‑202
Responsibility for collection or return - when action timely 4‑4‑203
Effect of instructions 4‑4‑204
Methods of sending and presenting - sending directly to payor bank 4‑4‑205
Depositary bank holder of unindorsed item 4‑4‑206
Transfer between banks 4‑4‑207
Transfer warranties 4‑4‑208
Presentment warranties 4‑4‑209
Encoding and retention warranties 4‑4‑210
Security interest of collecting bank in items, accompanying documents, and proceeds 4‑4‑211
When bank gives value for purposes of holder in due course 4‑4‑212
Presentment by notice of item not payable by, through, or at a bank - liability of drawer or indorser 4‑4‑213
Medium and time of settlement by bank 4‑4‑214
Right of charge-back or refund - liability of collecting bank - return of item 4‑4‑215
Final payment of item by payor bank - when provisional debits and credits become final - when certain credits become available for withdrawal 4‑4‑216
Insolvency and preference 4‑4‑301
Deferred posting - recovery of payment by return of items - time of dishonor - return of items by payor bank 4‑4‑302
Payor bank’s responsibility for late return of item 4‑4‑303
When items subject to notice, stop-payment order, legal process, or setoff - order in which items may be charged or certified 4‑4‑401
When bank may charge customer’s account 4‑4‑402
Bank’s liability to customer for wrongful dishonor - time of determining insufficiency of account 4‑4‑403
Customer’s right to stop payment - burden of proof of loss 4‑4‑404
Bank not obligated to pay check more than six months old 4‑4‑405
Death or incompetence of customer 4‑4‑406
Customer’s duty to discover and report unauthorized signature or alteration 4‑4‑407
Payor bank’s right to subrogation on improper payment 4‑4‑501
Handling of documentary drafts - duty to send for presentment and to notify customer of dishonor 4‑4‑502
Presentment of “on arrival” drafts 4‑4‑503
Responsibility of presenting bank for documents and goods - report of reason for dishonor - referee in case of need 4‑4‑504
Privilege of presenting bank to deal with goods - security interest for expenses
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Current through Fall 2024

§ 4-4-104’s source at colorado​.gov