C.F.R. » Title 12 » CHAPTER II—FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM › SUBCHAPTER A—BOARD OF GOVERNORS OF THE FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM › PART 210—COLLECTION OF CHECKS AND OTHER ITEMS BY FEDERAL RESERVE BANKS AND FUNDS TRANSFERS THROUGH THE FEDWIRE FUNDS SERVICE AND THE FEDNOW SERVICE (REGULATION J) › Subpart A—Collection of Checks and Other Items By Federal Reserve Banks

12 C.F.R. § 210.6

Status, warranties, and liability of Reserve Bank

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(a)(1) Status. A Reserve Bank that handles an item shall act as agent or subagent of the owner with respect to the item. This agency terminates when a Reserve Bank receives final payment for the item in actually and finally collected funds, a Reserve Bank makes the proceeds available for use by the sender, and the time for commencing all actions against the Reserve Bank has expired.

(2) Limitations on Reserve Bank liability. A Reserve Bank shall not have or assume any liability with respect to an item or its proceeds except—

(i) For the Reserve Bank's own lack of good faith or failure to exercise ordinary care;

(ii) As provided in paragraph (b) of this section;

(iii) As provided in an operating circular issued in accordance with § 210.3(a) regarding the sending of items; and

(iv) As provided in subparts C and D of part 229 of this chapter (Regulation CC).

(3) Reliance on routing designation appearing on item. A Reserve Bank may present or send an item based on the routing number or other designation of a paying bank or nonbank payor appearing in any form on the item when the Reserve Bank receives it. A Reserve Bank shall not be responsible for any delay resulting from its acting on any designation, whether inscribed by magnetic ink or by other means, and whether or not the designation acted on is consistent with any other designation appearing on the item.

(b) Warranties and liability. The following provisions apply when a Reserve Bank presents or sends an item.

(1) Warranties for all items. The Reserve Bank warrants to a subsequent collecting bank and to the paying bank and any other payor that—

(i) The Reserve Bank is a person entitled to enforce the item (or is authorized to obtain payment of the item on behalf of a person that is either entitled to enforce the item or authorized to obtain payment on behalf of a person entitled to enforce the item);

(ii) The item has not been altered; and

(iii) The item bears all indorsements applied by parties that previously handled the item for forward collection or return.

(2) Warranties and indemnities as set forth in Reserve Bank operating circulars. The Reserve Bank makes any warranties and indemnities regarding the sending of items as set forth in an operating circular issued in accordance with § 210.3(a).

(3) Warranties and indemnities as set forth in Regulation CC and U.C.C. As applicable and unless otherwise provided, the Reserve Bank makes all the warranties and indemnities set forth in and subject to the terms of subparts C and D of part 229 of this chapter (Regulation CC) and Article 4 of the U.C.C. The Reserve Bank makes all the warranties set forth in and subject to the terms of 4-207 of the U.C.C. for an electronic check as if it were an item subject to the U.C.C.

(4) Indemnity for substitute check created from an electronic check. (i) Except as provided in paragraph (b)(4)(ii) of this section, the Reserve Bank shall indemnify the bank to which it transfers or presents an electronic check (the recipient bank) for the amount of any losses that the recipient bank incurs under subpart D of part 229 of this chapter (Regulation CC) for an indemnity that the recipient bank was required to make under subpart D of part 229 of this chapter in connection with a substitute check later created from the electronic check.

(ii) The Reserve Bank shall not be liable under paragraph (b)(4)(i) of this section for any amount that the recipient bank pays under subpart D of part 229 of this chapter that is attributable to the lack of good faith or failure to exercise ordinary care of the recipient bank or a person that handled the item, in any form, after the recipient bank.

(c) Time for commencing action against Reserve Bank. (1) A claim against a Reserve Bank for lack of good faith or failure to exercise ordinary care shall be barred unless the action on the claim is commenced within two years after the claim accrues. Such a claim accrues on the date when a Reserve Bank's alleged failure to exercise ordinary care or to act in good faith first results in damages to the claimant.

(2) A claim that arises under paragraph (b)(3) of this section shall be barred unless the action on the claim is commenced within one year after the claim accrues. Such a claim accrues as of the date on which the claimant first learns, or by which the claimant reasonably should have learned, of the facts and circumstances giving rise to the claim.

(3) This paragraph (c) does not alter the time limit for claims under § 229.38(g) of this chapter (which include claims for breach of warranty under § 229.34 of this chapter) or subpart D of part 229 of this chapter.

[45 FR 68634, Oct. 16, 1980, as amended at 51 FR 21745, June 16, 1986; 53 FR 21984, June 13, 1988; Reg. J, 59 FR 22966, May 4, 1994; 62 FR 48172, Sept. 15, 1997; Reg. J, 69 FR 62559, Oct. 27, 2004; 70 FR 71225, Nov. 28, 2005; 83 FR 61519, Nov. 30, 2018]
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 17 cases, 1980–2016 · leading case: Northpark Nat'l Bank v. Bankers Trust Co., 572 F. Supp. 524 (S.D.N.Y. 1983).
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Northpark Nat'l Bank v. Bankers Trust Co., 572 F. Supp. 524 (S.D.N.Y. 1983). · cites it 8× “The FRBNY is permitted further to route the check to Chicago by virtue of note 3 to 12 C.F.R. § 210.6 (1979), currently codified at 12 C.”
United States Fid. & Guar. Co. v. Fed. Reserve Bank, 590 F. Supp. 486 (S.D.N.Y. 1984). · cites it 2× “First, it argues that public policy, as embodied in footnote 3 of 12 C.F.R. § 210.6 (a) (1979), requires that it be except *500 ed from liability in these circumstances.”
First Nat. Bank in Harvey v. Colonial Bank, 898 F. Supp. 1220 (N.D. Ill. 1995). · cites it 2× “12 C.F.R. § 210.6 . Count III against Colonial alleges breach of a duty of ordinary care in Colonial’s return of the Colonial cheeks.”
Am. Express Travel Related Servs., Co. v. Bank One-Dearborn, N.A., 195 F. App'x 458 (6th Cir. 2006). “See 12 C.F.R. § 210.6 (b)(l)(iii). FRBC, however, indicated that it did not intend to defend the suit because under 12 C.”
Appliance Buyers Credit Corp. v. Prospect Nat'l Bank of Peoria, 505 F. Supp. 163 (C.D. Ill. 1981). · cites it 2× “12 C.F.R. § 210.6 (a) states in relevant part: “A Federal Reserve bank will act only as the agent of the sender in respect of each cash item or noncash item received by it from the sender, .”
Colonial Cadillac, Inc. v. Shawmut Merchants Bank, N.A., 488 F. Supp. 283 (D. Mass. 1980). · cites it 2× “Thus, the application of the UCC to this case would expose the FRB to liability to remote parties, such as Colonial, as well as immediate parties, if the bank failed to use ordinary care in the collection process.”
Bill Childs v. Fed. Reserve Bank, 719 F.2d 812 (5th Cir. 1983). “12 C.F.R. § 210.6 (a)(1) (1981). Section 210.”
Wachovia Bank, N.A. v. Fed. Reserve Bank, 338 F.3d 318 (4th Cir. 2003). · cites it 2× “”), and under 12 C.F.R. § 210.6 (b)(“Regula-tion J”). The FRB removed the case to the United States District Court for the Western District of North Carolina and filed a third-party complaint against Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.”
Otero Sav. & Loan Ass'n v. Fed. Reserve Bank, 665 F.2d 275 (10th Cir. 1981). “The Reserve Bank raised the issue of possible liability on warranties extended pursuant to regulations governing Federal Reserve Banks, 12 C.F.R. § 210.6 (1981), and Article 4 of the Uniform Commercial Code, but did not outline explicitly how the Bank could suffer any losses in…”
Northpark Nat'l Bank v. Bankers Trust Co., 572 F. Supp. 520 (S.D.N.Y. 1983). “The FRBC has argued that, in regard to checks which New York banks send to it for collection, it acts as the agent of the FRBNY, see 12 C.F.R. § 210.6 (a)(1) (1982), and cannot therefore be deemed to be present in New York.”
Casa De Cambio Comdiv, S.A. De C v. V. Fed. Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, United States of Am., Amicus Curiae, 115 F.3d 618 (8th Cir. 1997). “, 12 C.F.R. § 210.6 (a)(1), there is no authority to support Casa’s argument that such care includes the detection of forged checks.”
Greater Buffalo Press, Inc. v. Fed. Reserve Bank of New York, 866 F.2d 38 (2d Cir. 1989). “12 C.F.R. § 210.6 (a) (1977) (footnote omitted), J.”
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Am. Express Travel Related Servs. Co. v. Bank One-Dearborn, N.A., 227 F.R.D. 490 (E.D. Mich. 2005).
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