2025 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes
Title 13 - COMMERCIAL CODE
Chapter 42 - Collection of Items: Depositary and Collecting Banks
Section 4204 - Methods of sending and presenting; sending directly to payor bank

(a) Collecting bank to send items by reasonably prompt method.--A collecting bank shall send items by a reasonably prompt method, taking into consideration relevant instructions, the nature of the item, the number of those items on hand, the cost of collection involved and the method generally used by it or others to present those items.

(b) Persons to whom bank may send items.--A collecting bank may send:

(1) an item directly to the payor bank;

(2) an item to a nonbank payor if authorized by its transferor; and

(3) an item other than documentary drafts to a nonbank payor, if authorized by Federal Reserve regulation or operating circular, clearinghouse rule or the like.

(c) Presentment where payor has requested.--Presentment may be made by a presenting bank at a place where the payor bank or other payor has requested that presentment be made.

(July 9, 1992, P.L.507, No.97, eff. one year)