Section 11-4-104. 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 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 (Code Section 11-8-102) or instructions for uncertificated securities (Code Section 11-8-102), 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 Code Section 11-3-104 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 4A 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; and

   (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 Code sections in which they appear are:
      "Agreement for electronic presentment." Code Section 11-4-110.
      "Bank." Code Section 11-4-105.
      "Collecting bank." Code Section 11-4-105.
      "Depositary bank." Code Section 11-4-105.
      "Intermediary bank." Code Section 11-4-105.
      "Payor bank." Code Section 11-4-105.
      "Presenting bank." Code Section 11-4-105.
      "Presentment notice." Code Section 11-4-110.

(c) "Control" as provided in Code Section 11-7-106 and the following definitions in other articles of this title apply to this article:
      "Acceptance." Code Section 11-3-409.
      "Alteration." Code Section 11-3-407.
      "Cashier's check." Code Section 11-3-104.
      "Certificate of deposit." Code Section 11-3-104.
      "Certified check." Code Section 11-3-409.
      "Check." Code Section 11-3-104.
      "Good faith." Code Section 11-3-103.
      "Holder in due course." Code Section 11-3-302.
      "Instrument." Code Section 11-3-104.
      "Notice of dishonor." Code Section 11-3-503.
      "Order." Code Section 11-3-103.
      "Ordinary care." Code Section 11-3-103.
      "Person entitled to enforce." Code Section 11-3-301.
      "Presentment." Code Section 11-3-501.
      "Promise." Code Section 11-3-103.
      "Prove." Code Section 11-3-103.
      "Teller's check." Code Section 11-3-104.
      "Unauthorized signature." Code Section 11-3-403.

(d) In addition Article 1 of this title contains general definitions and principles of construction and interpretation applicable throughout this article.

Code 1933, § 109A-4--104, enacted by Ga. L. 1962, p. 156, § 1; Ga. L. 1963, p. 188, § 9; Ga. L. 1974, p. 618, § 1; Ga. L. 1992, p. 2685, § 3; Ga. L. 1996, p. 1306, § 4; Ga. L. 1998, p. 1323, § 17; Ga. L. 2010, p. 481, § 2-16/HB 451.