Section 382-A:3-103 Definitions.
(a) In this Article:
(1) ""Acceptor'' means a drawee who has accepted a draft.
(2) ""Drawee'' means a person ordered in a draft to make payment.
(3) ""Drawer'' means a person who signs or is identified in a draft as a person ordering payment.
(4) [Repealed.]
(5) ""Maker'' means a person who signs or is identified in a note as a person undertaking to pay.
(6) ""Order'' means a written instruction to pay money signed by the person giving the instruction. The instruction may be addressed to any person, including the person giving the instruction, or to one or more persons jointly or in the alternative but not in succession. An authorization to pay is not an order unless the person authorized to pay is also instructed to pay.
(7) ""Ordinary care'' in the case of a person engaged in business means observance of reasonable commercial standards, prevailing in the area in which the person is located, with respect to the business in which the person is engaged. In the case of a bank that takes an instrument for processing for collection or payment by automated means, reasonable commercial standards do not require the bank to examine the instrument if the failure to examine does not violate the bank's prescribed procedures and the bank's procedures do not vary unreasonably from general banking usage not disapproved by this Article or Article 4.
(8) ""Party'' means a party to an instrument.
(9) ""Promise'' means a written undertaking to pay money signed by the person undertaking to pay. An acknowledgment of an obligation by the obligor is not a promise unless the obligor also undertakes to pay the obligation.
(10) ""Prove'' with respect to a fact means to meet the burden of establishing the fact (Section 1-201(b)(8)).
(11) ""Remitter'' means a person who purchases an instrument from its issuer if the instrument is payable to an identified person other than the purchaser.
(b) Other definitions applying to this Article and the sections in which they appear are:
Acceptance Section 3""409. Accommodated party Section 3""419. Accommodation party Section 3""419. Alteration Section 3""407. Anomalous indorsement Section 3""205. Blank indorsement Section 3""205. Cashier's check Section 3""104. Certificate of deposit Section 3""104. Certified check Section 3""409. Check Section 3""104. Consideration Section 3""303.
Demand Draft Section 3""104. Draft Section 3""104. Holder in due course Section 3""302. Incomplete instrument Section 3""115. Indorsement Section 3""204. Indorser Section 3""204. Instrument Section 3""104. Issue Section 3""105. Issuer Section 3""105. Negotiable instrument Section 3""104. Negotiation Section 3""201. Note Section 3""104. Payable at a definite time Section 3""108. Payable on demand Section 3""108. Payable to bearer Section 3""109. Payable to order Section 3""109. Payment Section 3""602. Person entitled to enforce Section 3""301. Presentment Section 3""501. Reacquisition Section 3""207. Special indorsement Section 3""205. Teller's check Section 3""104. Transfer of instrument Section 3""203. Traveler's check Section 3""104. Value Section 3""303.
(c) The following definitions in other Articles apply to this Article:
Acceptance Section 3""409. Bank Section 4""105. Banking day Section 4""104. Clearing house Section 4""104. Collecting bank Section 4""105. Depositary bank Section 4""105. Documentary draft Section 4""104. Intermediary bank Section 4""105. Item Section 4""104. Payor bank Section 4""105. Suspends payments Section 4""104.
(d) In addition, Article 1 contains general definitions and principles of construction and interpretation applicable throughout this Article.
Source. 1993, 346:1, eff. Jan. 1, 1994. 2002, 159:1, eff. Jan. 1, 2003. 2006, 169:9, 16, IV, eff. Jan. 1, 2007.