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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>71273</law_id><section_number>8.4-212</section_number><catch_line>Right of charge-back or refund; liability of collecting banks; return of item</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="8.4">Commercial Code &#x2014; Bank Deposits and Collections</unit><unit label="part" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="2">Collection of Items: Depositary and Collecting Banks</unit></structure><text>
						<section id="a"><p><span class="prefix-number">a.</span> If a <span class="dictionary">collecting bank</span> has made provisional <span class="dictionary">settlement</span> with its customer for an item and fails by reason of dishonor, suspension of payments by a bank or otherwise to receive a <span class="dictionary">settlement</span> for the item which is or becomes final, the bank may revoke the <span class="dictionary">settlement</span> given by it, charge-back the amount of any credit given for the item to its customer&#x2019;s account or obtain refund from its customer, whether or not it is able to return the item, if by its midnight deadline or within a longer reasonable time after it learns the <span class="dictionary">facts</span> it returns the item or sends notification of the <span class="dictionary">facts</span>. If the return or notice is delayed beyond the bank&#x2019;s midnight deadline or a longer reasonable time after it learns the <span class="dictionary">facts</span>, the bank may revoke the <span class="dictionary">settlement</span>, charge-back the credit or obtain a refund from its customer, but it is liable for any loss resulting from the delay. These rights to revoke, charge-back and obtain refund terminate if and when a <span class="dictionary">settlement</span> for the item received by the bank is or becomes final. <a id="paragraph-256875" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.4-212/#a"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="b"><p><span class="prefix-number">b.</span> A <span class="dictionary">collecting bank</span> returns an item when it is sent or delivered to the bank&#x2019;s customer or transferor or pursuant to its instructions. <a id="paragraph-256876" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.4-212/#b"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="c"><p><span class="prefix-number">c.</span> A <span class="dictionary">depositary bank</span> that is also the payor may charge-back the amount of an item to its customer&#x2019;s account or obtain refund in accordance with the section governing return of an item received by a <span class="dictionary">payor bank</span> for credit on its books (&#xA7; <a class="law" title="Deferred posting; recovery of payment by return of items; time of dishonor; return of items by payor bank" href="/8.4-301/">8.4-301</a>). <a id="paragraph-256877" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.4-212/#c"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="d"><p><span class="prefix-number">d.</span> The right to charge-back is not affected by: <a id="paragraph-256878" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.4-212/#d"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="d1" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">1.</span> previous use of a credit given for the item; or <a id="paragraph-256879" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.4-212/#d1"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="d2" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">2.</span> failure by any bank to exercise ordinary care with respect to the item but any bank so failing remains liable. <a id="paragraph-256880" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.4-212/#d2"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="e"><p><span class="prefix-number">e.</span> A failure to charge-back or claim refund does not affect other rights of the bank against the customer or any other <span class="dictionary">party</span>. <a id="paragraph-256881" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.4-212/#e"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="f"><p><span class="prefix-number">f.</span> If credit is given in dollars as the equivalent of the value of an item payable in a foreign money the dollar amount of any charge-back or refund shall be calculated on the basis of the bank-offered spot rate for the foreign money prevailing on the day when the person entitled to the charge-back or refund learns that it will not receive payment in ordinary course. <a id="paragraph-256882" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.4-212/#f"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>1964, c. 219; 1992, c. 693.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
