When Deposits are Available for Withdrawal
Our policy is to make funds from your deposits of cash and checks 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 they are available, you can withdraw the funds in cash and we will use the funds to pay checks that you have written.
In determining the availability of your deposits, every day is a Business Day, except Saturday, Sunday, and federal holidays. If a deposit is made at a branch on a Business Day before the office closes or before the cut-off time established for the branch, whichever is earlier, it will be considered made on the day of deposit. A deposit received by mail will be considered made on the Business Day of receipt at an authorized
location for mail deposits before our established cut-off time. Deposits to the night depository will be considered made when removed and available for processing by us. Deposits made at one of our automated teller machines will be considered made on the Business Day of deposit if made before our established cut-off time. Deposits made by lockbox arrangement, deposit courier and armored carrier are subject to the terms and conditions in the Treasury Management Services Disclosure and Agreement. Deposits received after an established cut-off time are considered received on our next Business Day and availability is determined from that day. We are not responsible or liable to you if a transaction is not charged to your account because a hold placed on a prior transaction has not expired.
Please remember that even after we have made funds available to you and you have withdrawn the funds, you are still responsible for checks or other items deposited that are returned to us unpaid and for any other problems involving your deposit.
Longer Delays May Apply
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. However, the first $200 of your deposits will be available on the first Business Day after the Business Day on which funds are deposited. If we are not going to make all of the funds from your deposit available on the first Business Day, we will notify you either at the time you make your deposit, or, if your deposit is not made directly to one of our employees, or if we decide to take this action after you have left our premises, we will mail you the notice by the Business Day after we receive your deposit. We will also tell you when the funds will be available. If you intend to use the funds from a deposit immediately, you should ask us when the funds will be available.
Holds Under Special Circumstances
Funds you deposit by check may be delayed for a longer period under the following circumstances:
1. We believe a check you deposit will not be paid. 2. You deposit checks totaling more than $5,000 on any
one Business Day. (Deposits made on non-Business Days, e.g., Saturday and Sunday, will be added together with the deposits on the next Business Day.)
3. You redeposit a check that has been returned unpaid. 4. You have overdrawn your account (or combination of
accounts) repeatedly in the last six months.
5. There is an emergency, such as a failure of communications or computer 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 client, the following special rules may apply during the first 30 days your account is open.
Funds from electronic direct deposits to your account will be available on the Business 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. The excess of $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 may be available to you, depending on the circumstances, as early as the Business Day after the day of your deposit or as many Business Days after the day of your deposit as we determine is necessary for us to reasonably be assured that the check is paid and will not be returned, but no longer than the time permitted by law.
Holds on Other Funds
If we cash a check for you that is drawn on another bank, we may hold a corresponding amount of funds that are already in any account you maintain with us. If we accept a check drawn on another bank for deposit into your account and make the funds in the account available to you, we may hold a corresponding amount of funds that you have on deposit in another account with us. These holds will be released at the time funds from the checks would normally be available to you.
Exceptions to Funds Availability Rules
These rules do not apply to deposits of foreign items (items drawn on or payable through or at an office of depository institutions not located in the United States) or non-cash items (e.g., documentary transit items and credit cards sales drafts deposited by credit card merchants).