§ 8.4A-203 Unenforceability of certain verified payment orders
a. If an accepted payment order is not, under subsection (a) of § 8.4A-202, an authorized order of a customer identified as sender, but is effective as an order of the customer pursuant to subsection (b) of § 8.4A-202, the following rules apply:
1. By express agreement evidenced by a record, the receiving bank may limit the extent to which it is entitled to enforce or retain payment of the payment order.
2. The receiving bank is not entitled to enforce or retain payment of payment order if the customer proves that the order was not caused, directly or indirectly, by a person (i) entrusted at any time with duties to act for the customer with respect to payment orders or the security procedure, or (ii) who obtained access to transmitting facilities of the customer or who obtained, from a source controlled by the customer and without authority of the receiving bank, information facilitating breach of the security procedure, regardless of how the information was obtained or whether the customer was at fault. Information includes any access device, computer software, or the like.
b. This section applies to amendments of payment orders to the same extent it applies to payment orders.
History
This law was first created in 1990. The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter 9 of that year’s edition of “Acts of Assembly,” the annual state publication listing all changes made to the Code of Virginia in that year. Unfortunately, the 1990 “Acts” aren’t available online. It has been modified 1 time. Those modifications are cataloged by “The Acts of Assembly,” a state publication, by year and chapter. Those modifications that can be read on the General Assembly’s website will be linked accordingly. That modification is as follows: in 2024, chapter 652.
1990, c. 9; 2024, c. 652.