§ 12A-3-103. Definitions.

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)Reserved;

(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 of this title;

(8)"Party" means a party to an instrument;

(9)“Principal obligor”, with respect to an instrument, means the accommodated party or any other party to the instrument against whom a secondary obligor has recourse under this article;

(10)"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;

(11)"Prove", with respect to a fact, means to meet the burden of establishing the fact (subsection (8) of Section 1-201 of this title);

(12)Reserved;

(13)"Remitter" means a person who purchases an instrument from its issuer if the instrument is payable to an identified person other than the purchaser; and

(14)“Secondary obligor”, with respect to an instrument, means (i) an indorser or an accommodation party, (ii) a drawer having the obligation described in subsection (d) of Section 3-414 of this title, or (iii) any other party to the instrument that has recourse against another party to the instrument pursuant to subsection (b) of Section 3-116 of this title.

(b)  Other definitions applying to this article and the sections in which they appear in this title are:

"Acceptance"Section 3-409

"Accommodated party"Section 3-419

"Accommodation party"Section 3-419

“Account”Section 4-104

"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

"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 of this title apply to this article:

"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 of the Uniform Commercial Code, this title, contains general definitions and principles of construction and interpretation applicable throughout this article.

Added by Laws 1961, p. 102, § 3-103.  Amended by Laws 1991, c. 117, § 28, eff. Jan. 1, 1992; Laws 2009, c. 208, § 2, eff. Nov. 1, 2009.

Note

NOTE:  Laws 2008, c. 382, § 2 was held unconstitutional by the Oklahoma Supreme Court in the case of Weddington v. Henry, 202 P.3d 143, 2008 OK 102 (2009) and repealed by Laws 2009, c. 208, § 22, eff. Nov. 1, 2009.