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America’s Best Free Checking
This account features unlimited check writing, no monthly service fee and no minimum balance. $50 minimum deposit to open.
LIMITATIONS: A maximum of 30 items may be deposited in a monthly statement period. If account balance is $0 for 45 consecutive days, the account will be closed.
America’s Best Interest Checking
America’s Best Interest Checking offers interest with no monthly service fee when a low minimum balance is maintained.
RATE INFORMATION: The interest rate and annual percentage yield may change at our discretion, at any time. Interest begins to accrue no later than the business day we receive credit for the deposit of noncash items (for example, checks). Interest is compounded and credited to the account monthly. If you close your account before interest is credited, you will not receive the accrued interest.
BALANCE INFORMATION: $50 minimum deposit to open. You must maintain a minimum daily balance of $500 to obtain the disclosed annual percentage yield. We use the daily balance method to calculate interest on your account. This method applies a daily periodic rate to the principal in the account each day.
ACCOUNT FEES: If the minimum daily balance falls below $500 during the monthly statement period, there will be a service fee of $10.
LIMITATIONS: A maximum of 30 items may be deposited in a monthly statement period. If account balance is $0 for 45 consecutive days, the account will be closed.
America’s Best Premier Interest Checking
America’s Best Premier Interest Checking offers our highest tiered rates of interest on checking accounts, with no monthly service fee when the minimum balance is maintained.
RATE INFORMATION: The interest rate and annual percentage yield may change at our discretion, at any time. Interest begins to accrue no later than the business day we receive credit for the deposit of noncash items (for example, checks). Interest is compounded and credited to the account monthly. If you close your account before interest is credited, you will not receive the accrued interest.
BALANCE INFORMATION: $50 minimum deposit to open. You must maintain a minimum daily balance of $5,000 to obtain the disclosed annual percentage yield. We use the daily balance method to calculate interest on your account. This method applies a daily periodic rate to the principal in the account each day.
LIMITATIONS: A maximum of 30 items may be deposited in a monthly statement period. If account balance is $0 for 45 consecutive days, the account will be closed.
ASSOCIATED ACCOUNT FEES
The following fees apply to all checking and savings accounts:
Stop Payment Fee $30 per item
Account Reconciling Service $20 per hour (min. $20) Account Research $30 per hour (min. $30) plus $1 per page Additional Statements $5 each
Returned Deposited Item Fee $5 per item
Returned ACH Item Fee $5 per item (Applies to ACH Originators)
For overdrafts created by check, in-person withdrawals, ATM withdrawals, or other electronic means, the following fees apply:
Overdraft Item Charge $30 Returned Item Charge $30
Overdrawn Account Charge ($5 per day for a maximum of 5 business days, after account is overdrawn for 5 consecutive business days)
The following fees apply to all checking accounts:
Check Printing Price may vary depending on style Ready Reserve Annual Fee $25
Personal Line of Credit Annual Fee $25
The following fee applies to all personal and business free checking accounts:
Inactivity Fee $5 monthly non-refundable fee if the account has no customer initiated activity for 1 year and a balance below $100.
The following fees apply to the Personal Online Banking Bill Payment service:
Electronic Expedited Payment $9.95 each Paper Expedited Payment $19.95 each Miscellaneous fees and charges
Cashier’s Checks $3
Personal Money Orders $3 each ($500 max.) Photocopies 25¢ per copy (after first 5)
Domestic Collection Items: $30 per item; Foreign Collection Items: Cost may vary Night Depository Bag $20 per bag (Refundable Deposit)
Written Deposit Verification $5 each
Check Cashing Service 2% of check amount (Non-customer) (rounded up to next dollar amount) FAX Fees (Outgoing/Incoming) $5 – 1st page ($1 each additional page)
Wire Transfer Fees
Incoming $10 Outgoing $22
Uniform Commercial Code
Disclosures Regarding Electronic “Wholesale Credit” Transactions
(Subject to Uniform Commercial Code Article 4A)
PROVISIONAL PAYMENT:
Credit given by us to you with respect to an automated clearing house credit entry is provisional until we receive final settlement for such entry through a Federal Reserve Bank. If we do not receive such final settlement, you are hereby notified and agree that we are entitled to a refund of the amount credited to you in connection with such entry, and the party making payment to you via such entry ( i.e. the originator of the entry) shall not be deemed to have paid you in the amount of such entry.
NOTICE OF RECEIPT OF ENTRY:
Under the operating rules of the National Automated Clearing House Association, which are applicable to ACH transactions involving your account, we are not required to give next day notice to you of receipt of an ACH item and we will not do so. However, we will continue to notify you of the receipt of payments in the periodic statements we provide to you.
CHOICE OF LAW:
We may accept on your behalf payments to your account which have been transmitted through one or more Automated Clearing Houses (ACH) and which are not subject to the Electronic Fund Transfer Act and your rights and obligations with respect to such payments shall be construed in accordance with and governed by the laws of the state of North Dakota, as provided by the operating rules of the National Automated
Funds Availability Policy
Your Ability To Withdraw Funds
This policy statement applies to all deposit accounts.
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 7:30 p.m. on a business day we are open, we will consider that day to be the day of your deposit. However, if you make a deposit after 7:30 p.m. or on a business 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 elsew here in this disclosure for the type of check that you deposited.
LONGER DELAYS MAY APPLY.
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.
MOBILE REMOTE DEPOSIT CAPTURE
The following section only applies to commercial accounts.
DEPOSITS AT AUTOMATED TELLER MACHINES
