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Ark. Code Ann. § 4-4-303

When items subject to notice, stop-payment order, legal process, or setoff — Order in which items may be charged or certified

Known as the Uniform Commercial Code

The act spans §§ 4–4 (597 sections).

Applied in 1 court decision — leading case Eagle Bank & Trust Co. v. Raynor Mfg. Co. (2019)

Most recently applied in Eagle Bank & Trust Co. v. Raynor Mfg. Co. (March 2019)

Acts 1961, No. 185, § 4-303; A.S.A. 1947, § 85-4-303; Acts 1991, No. 572, § 6.

(1) Any knowledge, notice, or stop-payment order received by, legal process served upon, or setoff exercised by a payor bank comes too late to terminate, suspend, or modify the bank's right or duty to pay an item or to charge its customer's account for the item if the knowledge, notice, stop-payment order, or legal process is received or served and a reasonable time for the bank to act thereon expires or the setoff is exercised after the earliest of the following: the bank accepts or certifies the item;

(2) the bank pays the item in cash;

(3) the bank settles for the item without having a right to revoke the settlement under statute, clearinghouse rule, or agreement;

(4) the bank becomes accountable for the amount of the item under § 4-4-302 dealing with the payor bank's responsibility for late return of items; or

(5) with respect to checks, a cutoff hour no earlier than one (1) hour after the opening of the next banking day after the banking day on which the bank received the check and no later than the close of that next banking day or, if no cutoff hour is fixed, the close of the next banking day after the banking day on which the bank received the check.

(6) Subject to subsection (a), items may be accepted, paid, certified, or charged to the indicated account of its customer in any order.

Current official text: Arkansas General Assembly. Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Arkansas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.