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Iowa Code § 554.4104 (2026)

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1. In this Article, unless the context otherwise requires:

a. “Account” means any deposit or credit account with a bank, including a demand, time, savings, passbook, share draft, or like account, other than an account evidenced by a certificate of deposit.

b. “Afternoon” means the period of a day between noon and midnight.

c. “Banking day” means the part of a day on which a bank is open to the public for carrying on substantially all of its banking functions but for the purposes of determining a bank’s midnight deadline, shall not include Saturday, Sunday, or any holiday when the federal reserve banks are not performing check clearing functions.

d. “Clearing house” means an association of banks or other payors regularly clearing items.

e. “Customer” means a person having an account with a bank or for whom a bank has agreed to collect items, including a bank that maintains an account at another bank.

f. “Documentary draft” means a draft to be presented for acceptance or payment if specified documents, certificated securities (section 554.8102) or instructions for uncertificated securities (section 554.8102), or other certificates, statements, or the like are to be received by the drawee or other payor before acceptance or payment of the draft.\n\nTue Dec 09 22:02:41 2025 Iowa Code 2026, Chapter 554 (108, 4) 85 UNIFORM COMMERCIAL CODE, §554.4105\n\n g. “Draft” means a draft as defined in section 554.3104 or an item, other than an instrument, that is an order.

h. “Drawee” means a person ordered in a draft to make payment.

i. “Item” means an instrument or a promise or order to pay money handled by a bank for collection or payment. The term does not include a payment order governed by Article 12 or a credit or debit card slip.

j. “Midnight deadline” with respect to a bank is midnight on its next banking day following the banking day on which it receives the relevant item or notice or from which the time for taking action commences to run, whichever is later.

k. “Settle” means to pay in cash, by clearing-house settlement, in a charge or credit or by remittance, or otherwise as agreed. A settlement may be either provisional or final.

l. “Suspends payments” with respect to a bank means that it has been closed by order of the supervisory authorities, that a public officer has been appointed to take it over, or that it ceases or refuses to make payments in the ordinary course of business.

2. Other definitions applying to this Article and the sections in which they appear are:

a. “Agreement for electronic presentment”............................................... Section 554.4110

b. “Bank” ............................................... Section 554.4105

c. “Collecting bank” .............................. Section 554.4105

d. “Depositary bank” ............................ Section 554.4105

e. “Intermediary bank” ......................... Section 554.4105

f. “Payor bank” ...................................... Section 554.4105

g. “Presenting bank”............................. Section 554.4105

h. “Presentment notice”........................ Section 554.4110

3. The following definitions in other Articles apply to this Article:

a. “Acceptance” ..................................... Section 554.3409

b. “Alteration” ........................................ Section 554.3407

c. “Cashier’s check”.............................. Section 554.3104

d. “Certificate of deposit” ..................... Section 554.3104

e. “Certified check” ............................... Section 554.3409

f. “Check”............................................... Section 554.3104

g. “Control”............................................ Section 554.7106

h. “Holder in due course” ..................... Section 554.3302

i. “Instrument”....................................... Section 554.3104

j. “Notice of dishonor”.......................... Section 554.3503

k. “Order” .............................................. Section 554.3103

l. “Ordinary care” .................................. Section 554.3103

m. “Person entitled to enforce”............ Section 554.3301

n. “Presentment”................................... Section 554.3501

o. “Promise” .......................................... Section 554.3103

p. “Prove” .............................................. Section 554.3103

q. “Teller’s check”................................. Section 554.3104

r. “Unauthorized signature” ................. Section 554.3403

4. In addition Article 1 contains general definitions and principles of construction and interpretation applicable throughout this Article. [C66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §554.4104] 88 Acts, ch 1102, §1; 91 Acts, ch 222, §1; 94 Acts, ch 1167, §81, 122; 95 Acts, ch 67, §42; 96 Acts, ch 1138, §7, 84; 2007 Acts, ch 30, §45, 46, 62; 2007 Acts, ch 41, §27; 2012 Acts, ch 1023, §145, 157 Referred to in §554.3103, 554.3104, 554.9102, 554.12105 \n

Notes of Decisions

Cited in 6 cases, 1978–2017 · leading case: Sarachek v. Luana Sav. Bank (In re Agriprocessors, Inc.), 490 B.R. 852 (Bankr. D. Iowa 2013).

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Sarachek v. Luana Sav. Bank (In re Agriprocessors, Inc.), 490 B.R. 852 (Bankr. D. Iowa 2013). · cites it 6× “” Iowa Code § 554.4104 (l)(j) (emphasis added).”

Sarachek v. Luana Sav. Bank, 547 B.R. 292 (N.D. Iowa 2016). · cites it 2× “§ 4-104(10) (defining the “midnight deadline” as “midnight on [a bank’s] next banking day following the banking day on which it receives the relevant item”); see also Iowa Code § 554.4104 (j) (adopting the U.”

Joseph Sarachek v. Luana Sav. Bank, 859 F.3d 599 (8th Cir. 2017). “Iowa Code §§ 554.4104 (l)(j), 554.4301. Luana generally let provisional settlements become final at the midnight deadline, even if they caused or contributed to a negative balance.”

Farm Credit Servs. of Am. v. Am. State Bank, 212 F. Supp. 2d 1034 (N.D. Iowa 2002). · cites it 2× “” Iowa Code § 554.4104 (l)(j). 3 . Farm Credit alternatively argues that if it is considered a non-bank drawee of the drafts it has stated a viable cause of action against ASB for its rejection of the drafts because under the U.”

Toronto-Dominion Bank v. Cent. Nat'l Bank & Trust Co., 753 F.2d 66 (8th Cir. 1985). · cites it 2× “See Iowa Code §§ 554.4104 (1)(h), .4301, .4302 (1983).”

Marcoux v. Van Wyk, 572 F.2d 651 (1978). “See Iowa Code § 554.4104 (l)(h) (1975). All of the drafts relevant here were received by the Bank between September 20 and September 28, but none were returned to plaintiffs’ banks until October 3.”

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