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<section article="gfi" article_name="Financial Institutions" number="5-309" title_number="5" title_name="Banking Institutions -- General Provisions" subtitle_number="3" subtitle_name="Deposits">
  <level label="a">
    <text>In this section, “payor institution” means a bank, credit union, or savings and loan association by which an item is payable as drawn or accepted.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>As to each account of each depositor in a banking institution, the banking institution shall give to the customer, on opening of the account and on any later demand of the customer, written notice of the time after which the funds represented by an item deposited to the account shall be available for withdrawal as of right, for each of the situations where the banking institution:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Is also the payor institution;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Is located in the same state as the payor institution; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>Is located in a different state from that in which the payor institution is located.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>The notice shall also state the time after which the funds represented by an item become available for withdrawal as of right where the item is issued by:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>The Maryland State Government or any agency thereof;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The United States Treasury; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>Any agency of the federal government.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>The notice shall be printed in type no smaller than elite typewriter characters.</text>
  </level>
</section>
