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<section article="gcl" article_name="Commercial Law" number="4A-210" title_number="4A" title_name="Funds Transfers" subtitle_number="2" subtitle_name="Issue and Acceptance of Payment Order">
  <level label="a">
    <level label="1">
      <text>A payment order is rejected by the receiving bank by a notice of rejection transmitted to the sender orally, electronically, or in writing.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>A notice of rejection need not use any particular words and is sufficient if it indicates that the receiving bank is rejecting the order or will not execute or pay the order.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>Rejection is effective when the notice is given if transmission is by a means that is reasonable in the circumstances.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>If notice of rejection is given by a means that is not reasonable, rejection is effective when the notice is received.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>If an agreement of the sender and receiving bank establishes the means to be used to reject a payment order:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Any means complying with the agreement is reasonable; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Any means not complying is not reasonable unless no significant delay in receipt of the notice resulted from the use of the noncomplying means.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>This subsection applies if a receiving bank other than the beneficiary’s bank fails to execute a payment order despite the existence on the execution date of a withdrawable credit balance in an authorized account of the sender sufficient to cover the order. If the sender does not receive notice of rejection of the order on the execution date and the authorized account of the sender does not bear interest, the bank is obliged to pay interest to the sender on the amount of the order for the number of days elapsing after the execution date to the earlier of the day the order is cancelled pursuant to § 4A-211(d) of this subtitle or the day the sender receives notice or learns that the order was not executed, counting the final day of the period as an elapsed day. If the withdrawable credit balance during that period falls below the amount of the order, the amount of interest is reduced accordingly.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>If a receiving bank suspends payments, all unaccepted payment orders issued to it are deemed rejected at the time the bank suspends payments.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>Acceptance of a payment order precludes a later rejection of the order. Rejection of a payment order precludes a later acceptance of the order.</text>
  </level>
</section>
