WEST VIRGINIA CODE
WVC 46 - 4 A- 204
§46-4A-204. Refund of payment and duty of customer to report with
respect to unauthorized payment order.
(a) If a receiving bank accepts a payment order issued in the
name of its customer as sender which is: (1) Not authorized and
not effective as the order of the customer under §46-4A-202; or (2)
not enforceable, in whole or in part, against the customer under
§46-4A-203, the bank shall refund any payment of the payment order
received from the customer to the extent the bank is not entitled
to enforce payment, and shall pay interest on the refundable amount
calculated from the date the bank received payment to the date of
the refund. However, the customer is not entitled to interest from
the bank on the amount to be refunded if the customer fails to
exercise ordinary care to determine that the order was not
authorized by the customer and to notify the bank of the relevant
facts within a reasonable time not exceeding ninety days after the
date the customer received notification from the bank that the
order was accepted or that the customer's account was debited with
respect to the order. The bank is not entitled to any recovery
from the customer on account of a failure by the customer to give
notification as stated in this section.
(b) Reasonable time under subsection (a) of this section may
be fixed by agreement as stated in section 1-302(b), but the
obligation of a receiving bank to refund payment as stated in
subsection (a) of this section may not otherwise be varied by
agreement.
Note: WV Code updated with legislation passed through the 2012 1st Special Session