2025 Session Last amended: 1990 session

§ 336.4A-504 — Order in Which Items and Payment Orders May Be Charged to Account; Order of Withdrawals From Account

Plain-Language Summary

This section addresses the order in which a bank may charge a customer's account and how withdrawals are tracked. When a receiving bank has more than one payment order, or payment orders plus other items payable from the same account, it may charge the account for those orders and items in any sequence it chooses. When deciding whether a credit to the account has been withdrawn or applied to a debt, the bank treats the earliest credits as the first ones withdrawn or applied (first in, first out).

Practical Notes
A bank does not have to process multiple payment orders or other charges against an account in any particular order; it may pick the sequence. For figuring out which deposits have been used up, the oldest credits to the account are considered spent first.