CopyCited 5 times | Published | District Court, S.D. Florida | 48 U.C.C. Rep. Serv. 2d (West) 232, 2002 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 12962, 2002 WL 1473458
...at the St. Armands branch of First Union in Sarasota. The Check was sent to the City Center branch. As a matter of law, for purposes of computing time (i.e. the commencement of the midnight deadline time period), the two branches are separate banks. Section 674.1071, Florida Statutes, states that: [a] branch or separate office of a bank is a separate bank for the purpose of computing the time within which, and determining the place at or to which, action may be taken or notices or orders must be given under this chapter and under chapter 673....
...Because the branch at which the customer keeps his account may have the signature card and other pertinent information about the customer, presenting the check at another branch of the same bank is not proper presentment.) SCADIF contends that the proper interpretation of section 674.1071, Florida Statutes, requires the Court to hold that the Check was constructively presented to the St....
