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. Share
draft 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 delay the availability of funds from
your cash and check deposits. During the delay, you
may not withdraw the funds in cash and we will not 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available to you, and you have withdrawn the funds,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.
DETERMINING THE AVAILABILITY OF
A DEPOSIT
The length of the delay is counted in business days
from the day of your deposit. 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.
The length of the delay varies depending on the type
of deposit and is explained below.
Same-Day Availability
Funds from electronic direct deposits to your account
will be available on the day we receive the deposit.
Next-Day Availability
- Funds from the following deposits are available
on the first business day after the day of your deposit:
- U.S. Treasury checks that are payable to you.
- Wire transfers.
- Checks drawn on Miller Electric Credit Union.
- If you make the deposit in person to one of our
employees, funds from the following deposits are also
available on the first business day after the day
of your deposit:
- Cash.
- State and local government checks that are payable
to you.
- Cashier's, certified, and teller's checks that
are payable to you.
- Federal Reserve Bank checks, Federal Home Loan
Bank checks, and postal money orders, if these items
are payable to you.
- If you do not make your deposit in person to one
of our employees (for example, if you mail the deposit),
funds from these deposits will be available on the
second business day after the day we receive your
deposit.
Other Check Deposits
The delay for other check deposits depends on whether
the check is a local or a nonlocal check. To see whether
a check is a local or a nonlocal check, look at the
routing number on the check:
If the first four digits of the routing number (1234
in the examples above) are 0710, 2710, 0711, 2711, 0712,
2712, 0719, 2719, 0750, 2750, 0759, or 2759, then the
check is a local check. Otherwise, the check is a nonlocal
check. Some checks are marked "payable through" and
have a four- or nine-digit number nearby. For these
checks, use the four-digit number (or the first four
digits of the nine-digit number), not the routing number
on the bottom of the check, to determine if these checks
are local or nonlocal. Our policy is to make funds from
local and nonlocal checks available as follows.
1. Local checks. The first $100 from a deposit of
local checks will be available on the first business
day after the day of your deposit. The remaining funds
will be available on the second business day after the
day of your deposit.
For example, if you deposit a local check of $700
on a Monday, $100 of the deposit is available on Tuesday.
The remaining $600 is available on Wednesday.
2. Nonlocal checks. The first $100 from a deposit
of nonlocal checks will be available on the first business
day after the day of your deposit. The remaining funds
will be available on the fifth business day after the
day of your deposit.
For example, if you deposit a $700 nonlocal check
on a Monday, $100 of the deposit is available on Tuesday.
The remaining $600 is available on Monday of the following
week.
3. Local and nonlocal checks. If you deposit both
categories of checks, $100 from the checks will be available
on the first business day after the day of your deposit,
not $100 from each category of check.
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 according to the preceding schedule.
Depending on the type of check that you deposit, funds
may not be available until the fifth business day after
the day of your deposit. The first $100 of your deposits,
however, may be available on the first business day.
If we are not going to make all of the funds from
your deposit available according to the preceding schedule,
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 eleventh business day
after the day of your deposit.
SPECIAL RULES FOR NEW ACCOUNTS
If you are a new member, 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 tenth business day after the day of your deposit. |