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<section article="gcl" article_name="Commercial Law" number="4A-403" title_number="4A" title_name="Funds Transfers" subtitle_number="4" subtitle_name="Payment">
  <level label="a">
    <text>Payment of the sender’s obligation under § 4A-402 of this subtitle to pay the receiving bank occurs as follows:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>If the sender is a bank, payment occurs when the receiving bank receives final settlement of the obligation through a Federal Reserve Bank or through a funds-transfer system.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>If the sender is a bank and the sender:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Credited an account of the receiving bank with the sender; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Caused an account of the receiving bank in another bank to be credited, payment occurs when the credit is withdrawn or, if not withdrawn, at midnight of the day on which the credit is withdrawable and the receiving bank learns of that fact.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>If the receiving bank debits an account of the sender with the receiving bank, payment occurs when the debit is made to the extent the debit is covered by a withdrawable credit balance in the account.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>If the sender and receiving bank are members of a funds-transfer system that nets obligations multilaterally among participants, the receiving bank receives final settlement when settlement is complete in accordance with the rules of the system.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The obligation of the sender to pay the amount of a payment order transmitted through the funds-transfer system may be satisfied, to the extent permitted by the rules of the system, by setting off and applying against the sender’s obligation the right of the sender to receive payment from the receiving bank of the amount of any other payment order transmitted to the sender by the receiving bank through the funds-transfer system.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>The aggregate balance of obligations owed by each sender to each receiving bank in the funds-transfer system may be satisfied, to the extent permitted by the rules of the system, by setting off and applying against that balance the aggregate balance of obligations owed to the sender by other members of the system.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>The aggregate balance is determined after the right of setoff stated in the second sentence of this subsection has been exercised.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>If 2 banks transmit payment orders to each other under an agreement that settlement of the obligations of each bank to the other under § 4A-402 of this subtitle will be made at the end of the day or other period, the total amount owed with respect to all orders transmitted by 1 bank shall be set off against the total amount owed with respect to all orders transmitted by the other bank. To the extent of the setoff, each bank has made payment to the other.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>In a case not covered by subsection (a) of this section, the time when payment of the sender’s obligation under § 4A-402(b) or (c) of this subtitle occurs is governed by applicable principles of law that determine when an obligation is satisfied.</text>
  </level>
</section>
