Title 11, Chapter 5, Section 117
( 11-5-117)
Insolvency of bank holding funds for documentary credit. (1) Where an issuer or an advising or confirming bank or a bank which has for a customer procured issuance of a credit by another bank becomes insolvent before final payment under the credit and the credit is one to which this article is made applicable by paragraphs (a) or (b) of Code Section 11-5-102(1) on scope, the receipt or allocation of funds or collateral to secure or meet obligations under the credit shall have the following results: (a) To the extent of any funds or collateral turned over after or
before the insolvency as indemnity against or specifically for the
purpose of payment of drafts or demands for payment drawn under
the designated credit, the drafts or demands are entitled to
payment in preference over depositors or other general creditors
of the issuer or bank; and (b) On expiration of the credit or surrender of the beneficiary's
rights under it unused any person who has given such funds or
collateral is similarly entitled to return thereof; and (c) A charge to a general or current account with a bank if
specifically consented to for the purpose of indemnity against or
payment of drafts or demands for payment drawn under the
designated credit falls under the same rules as if the funds had
been drawn out in cash and then turned over with specific
instructions. (2) After honor or reimbursement under this Code section the
customer or other person for whose account the insolvent bank has
acted is entitled to receive the documents involved. |