/* Article 3 of the UCC regarding neogitable instruments follows. */
ARTICLE 3
NEGOTIABLE INSTRUMENTS
PART 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS AND DEFINITIONS
Section
3-101. Short Title.
3-102. Subject Matter.
3-103. Definitions.
3-104. Negotiable Instrument.
3-105. Issue of Instrument.
3-106. Unconditional Promise or Order.
3-107. Instrument Payable in Foreign Money.
3-108. Payable on Demand or at Definite Time.
3-109. Payable to Bearer or to Order.
3-110. Identification of Person to Whom Instrument is Payable.
3-111. Place of Payment.
3-112. Interest.
3-113. Date of Instrument.
3-114. Contradictory Terms of Instrument.
3-115. Incomplete Instrument.
3-116. Joint and Several Liability; Contribution.
3-117. Other Agreements Affecting Instrument.
3-118. Statute of Limitations.
3-119. Notice of Right to Defend Action.
PART 2. NEGOTIATION, TRANSFER, AND INDORSEMENT
3-201. Negotiation.
3-202. Negotiation Subject to Rescission.
3-203. Transfer of Instrument; Rights Acquired by Transfer.
3-204. Indorsement.
3-205. Special Indorsement; Blank Indorsement; Anomalous
Indorsement.
3-206. Restrictive Indorsement.
3-207. Reacquisition.
PART 3. ENFORCEMENT OF INSTRUMENTS
3-301. Person Entitled to Enforce Instrument.
3-302. Holder in Due Course.
3-303. Value and Consideration.
3-304. Overdue Instrument.
3-305. Defenses and Claims in Recoupment.
3-306. Claims to an Instrument.
3-307. Notice of Breach of Fiduciary Duty.
3-308. Proof of Signatures and Status as Holder in Due Course.
3-309. Enforcement of Lest, Destroyed, or Stolen Instrument.
3-310. Effect of Instrument on Obligation for Which Taken.
3-311. Accord and Satisfaction by Use of Instrument.
3-312. Lost, Destroyed, or Stolen Cashier's Check, Teller's
Check, or Certified Check.
PART 4. LIABILITY OF PARTIES
3-401. Signature.
3-402. Signature by Representative.
3-403. Unauthorized Signature.
3-404. Impostors; Fictitious Payees.
3-405. Employer's Responsibility for Fraudulent Indorsement by
Employee.
3-406. Negligence Contributing to Forged Signature or
Alteration of Instrument.
3-407. Alteration.
3-408. Drawee not Liable on Unaccepted Draft.
3-409. Acceptance of Draft; Certified Check.
3-410. Acceptance Varying Draft.
3-411. Refusal to Pay Cashier's Checks, Teller's Checks, and
Certified Checks.
3-412. Obligation of Issuer of Note or Cashier's Check.
3-413. Obligation of Acceptor.
3-414. Obligation of Drawer.
3-415. Obligation of Indorser.
3-416. Transfer Warranties.
3-417. Presentment Warranties.
3-418. Payment or Acceptance by Mistake.
3-419. Instruments Signed for Accommodation.
3-420. Conversion of Instrument.
PART 5. DISHONOR
3-501. Presentment.
3-502. Dishonor.
3-503. Notice of Dishonor.
3-504. Excused Presentment and Notice of Dishonor.
3-505. Evidence of Dishonor.
PART 6. DISCHARGE AND PAYMENT
3-601. Discharge and Effect of Discharge.
3-602. Payment.
3-603. Tender of Payment.
3-604. Discharge by Cancellation or Renunciation.
3-605. Discharge of Indorsers and Accommodation Patties.
ARTICLE 3
NEGOTIABLE INSTRUMENTS
PART 1
GENERAL PROVISIONS AND DEFINITIONS
3-101. Short Title.
This Article may be cited as Uniform Commercial Code -- Negotiable Instruments.
3-102. Subject Matter.
(a) This Article applies to negotiable instruments. It does not apply to money, to payment orders governed by Article 4A, or to securities governed by Article 8.
(b) If there is conflict between this Article and Article 4 or 9, Articles 4 and 9 govern.
(c) Regulations of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and operating circulars of the Federal Reserve Banks supersede any inconsistent provision of this Article to the extent of the inconsistency.
3-103. Definitions.
(a) In this Article:
(1) "Acceptor" means a drawee who has accepted a draft.
(2) "Drawee" means a person ordered in a draft to make payment.
(3) "Drawer" means a person who signs or is identified in a draft as a person ordering payment.
(4) "Good faith" means honesty in fact and the observance of reasonable commercial standards of fair dealing.
(5) "Maker" means a person who signs or is identified in a note as a person undertaking to pay.
(6) "Order" means a written instruction to pay money signed by the person giving the instruction. The instruction may be addressed to any person, including the person giving the instruction, or to one or more persons jointly or in the alternative but not in succession. An authorization to pay is not an order unless the person authorized to pay is also instructed to pay.
(7) "Ordinary care" in the case of a person engaged in business means observance of reasonable commercial standards, prevailing in the area in which the person is located, with respect to the business in which the person is engaged. In the case of a bank that takes an instrument for processing for collection or payment by automated means, reasonable commercial standards do not require the bank to examine the instrument if the failure to examine does not violate the bank's prescribed procedures and the bank's procedures do not vary unreasonably from general banking usage not disapproved by this Article or Article 4.
(8) "Party" means a party to an instrument.
(9) "Promise" means a written undertaking to pay money signed by the person undertaking to pay. An acknowledgment of an obligation by the obligor is not a promise unless the obligor also undertakes to pay the obligation.
(10) "Prove" with respect to a fact means to meet the burden of establishing the fact (Section 1-201(8)).
(11) "Remitter" means a person who purchases an instrument from its issuer if the instrument is payable to an identified person other than the purchaser.
(b) Other definitions applying to this Article and the sections in which they appear are:
"Acceptance" Section 3-409
"Accommodated party" Section 3-419
"Accommodation party" Section 3-419
"Alteration" Section 3-407
"Anomalous indorsement" Section 3-205
"Blank indorsement" Section 3-205
"Cashier's check" Section 3-104
"Certificate of deposit" Section 3-104
"Certified check" Section 3-409
"Check" Section 3-104
"Consideration" Section 3-303
"Draft" Section 3-104
"Holder in due course" Section 3-302
"Incomplete instrument" Section 3-115
"Indorsement" Section 3-204
"Indorser" Section 3-204
"Instrument" Section 3-104
"Issue" Section 3-105
"Issuer" Section 3-105
"Negotiable instrument" Section 3-104
"Negotiation" Section 3-201
"Note" Section 3-104
"Payable at a definite time" Section 3-108
"Payable on demand" Section 3-108
"Payable to bearer" Section 3-109
"Payable to order" Section 3-109
"Payment" Section 3-602 "Person entitled to enforce" Section 3-301
"Presentment" Section 3-501
"Reacquisition" Section 3-207
"Special indorsement" Section 3-205
"Teller's check" Section 3-104
"Transfer of instrument" Section 3-203
"Traveler's check" Section 3-104
"Value" Section 3-303
(c) The following definitions in other Articles apply to this Article: