YOUR ABILITY TO WITHDRAW FUNDS
This policy statement applies to “transaction” accounts. Transaction
accounts, in general, are accounts which permit an unlimited number of
payments to third persons and an unlimited number of telephone and
preauthorized transfers to other accounts of yours with us. Checking accounts
are the most common transaction accounts. Feel free to ask us whether any of
your other accounts might also be under this policy.
Our policy is to make funds from your cash and check deposits available to
you on the first business day after the day we receive your deposit. Electronic
direct deposits will be available on the day we receive the deposit. Once the
funds are available, you can withdraw them in cash and we will use the funds
to pay checks that you have written.
Please remember that even after we have made funds available to you, and
you have withdrawn the funds, you are still responsible for checks you deposit
that are returned to us unpaid and for any other problems involving your
deposit.
For determining the availability of your deposits, every day is a business
day, except Saturdays, Sundays, and federal holidays. If you make a deposit
before closing on a business day that we are open, we will consider that day to
be the day of your deposit. However, if you make a deposit after closing or on a
day we are not open, we will consider that the deposit was made on the next
business day we are open.
If we cash a check for you that is drawn on another bank, we may withhold
the availability of a corresponding amount of funds that are already in your
account. Those funds will be available at the time funds from the check we
cashed would have been available if you had deposited it.
If we accept for deposit a check that is drawn on another bank, we may
make funds from the deposit available for withdrawal immediately but delay
your availability to withdraw a corresponding amount of funds that you have
on deposit in another account with us. The funds in the other account would
then not be available for withdrawal until the time periods that are described
elsewhere in this disclosure for the type of check that you deposited.
LONGER DELAYS MAY APPLY
Case-by-case delays. In some cases, we will not make all of the funds that
you deposit by check available to you on the first business day after the day of
your deposit. Depending on the type of check that you deposit, funds may not
be available until the second business day after the day of your deposit. The
first $200 of your deposits, however, will be available on the first business day.
If we are not going to make all of the funds from your deposit available on
the first business day, we will notify you at the time you make your deposit. We
will also tell you when the funds will be available. If your deposit is not made
directly to one of our employees, or if we decide to take this action after you
have left the premises, we will mail you the notice by the day after we receive
your deposit.
If you will need the funds from a deposit right away, you should ask us
when the funds will be available.
Safeguard exceptions. In addition, funds you deposit by check may be
delayed for a longer period under the following circumstances:
We believe a check you deposit will not be paid.
You deposit checks totaling more than $5,000 on any one day.
You redeposit a check that has been returned unpaid.
You have overdrawn your account repeatedly in the last six months.
There is an emergency, such as failure of computer or communications
equipment.
We will notify you if we delay your ability to withdraw funds for any of
these reasons, and we will tell you when the funds will be available. They will
generally be available no later than the seventh business day after the day of
your deposit.
SPECIAL RULES FOR NEW ACCOUNTS
If you are a new customer, the following special rules will apply during the
first 30 days your account is open.
Funds from electronic direct deposits to your account will be available on
the day we receive the deposit. Funds from deposits of cash, wire transfers,
and the first $5,000 of a day’s total deposits of cashier’s, certified, teller’s,
traveler’s, and federal, state and local government checks will be available on
the first business day after the day of your deposit if the deposit meets certain
conditions. For example, the checks must be payable to you (and you may have
to use a special deposit slip). The excess over $5,000 will be available on the
ninth business day after the day of your deposit. If your deposit of these checks
(other than a U.S. Treasury check) is not made in person to one of our
employees, the first $5,000 will not be available until the second business day
after the day of your deposit.
Funds from all other check deposits will be available on the ninth business
day after the day of your deposit.