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IMPORTANT INFORMATION
ABOUT PROCEDURES FOR OPENING A NEW ACCOUNT -
To help the government fight the funding of
terrorism and money laundering activities, Federal law
requires all financial institutions to obtain, verify, and
record information that identifies each person who opens an
account.
What this means for you:
When you open an account, we will ask for your name,
address, date of birth, and other information that will
allow us to identify you. We may also ask to see your
driver's license or other identifying documents.
AGREEMENT -
This document, along with any other documents we give you
pertaining to your account(s), is a contract that
establishes rules which control your account(s) with us.
Please read this carefully. If you sign the signature card
or open or continue to have your account with us, you agree
to these rules. You will receive a separate schedule of
rates, qualifying balances, and fees if they are not
included in this document. If you have any questions, please
call us.
This agreement is subject
to applicable federal laws and the laws of the state of
Minnesota (except to the extent that this agreement can and
does vary such rules or laws). The body of state and federal
law that governs our relationship with you, however, is too
large and complex to be reproduced here. The purpose of this
document is to:
- summarize some laws
that apply to common transactions;
- establish rules to
cover transactions or events which the law does not
regulate;
- establish rules for
certain transactions or events which the law regulates but
permits variation by agreement; and
- give you disclosures of
some of our policies to which you may be entitled or in
which you may be interested.
If any provision of this
document is found to be unenforceable according to its
terms, all remaining provisions will continue in full force
and effect. We may permit some variations from our standard
agreement, but we must agree to any variation in writing
either on the signature card for your account or in some
other document.
As used in this document
the words "we," "our," and "us" mean the financial
institution and the words "you" and "your" mean the account
holder(s) and anyone else with the authority to deposit,
withdraw, or exercise control over the funds in the account.
The headings in this document are for convenience or
reference only and will not govern the interpretation of the
provisions. Unless it would be inconsistent to do so, words
and phrases used in this document should be construed so the
singular includes the plural and the plural includes the
singular.
LIABILITY -
You agree, for yourself (and the person or entity you
represent if you sign as a representative of another) to the
terms of this account and the schedule of charges. You
authorize us to deduct these charges directly from the
account balance as accrued. You will pay any additional
reasonable charges for services you request which are not
covered by this agreement.
Each of you also agrees to
be jointly and severally (individually) liable for any
account shortage resulting from charges or overdrafts,
whether caused by you or another with access to this
account. This liability is due immediately, and can be
deducted directly from the account balance whenever
sufficient funds are available. You have no right to defer
payment of this liability, and you are liable regardless of
whether you signed the item or benefited from the charge or
overdraft. This includes liability for our costs to collect
the deficit including, to the extent permitted by law, our
reasonable attorneys' fees.
DEPOSITS -
We will give only provisional credit until collection is
final for any items, other than cash, we accept for deposit
(including items drawn "on us"). Actual credit for deposits
of, or payable in, foreign currency will be at the exchange
rate in effect on final collection in U.S. dollars. We are
not responsible for transactions by mail or outside
depository until we actually record them. We will treat and
record all transactions received after our "daily cutoff
time" on a business day we are open, or received on a day we
are not open for business, as if initiated on the next
following business day that we are open.
WITHDRAWALS -
Unless clearly indicated otherwise on the account records,
any of you, acting alone, who signs in the space designated
for signatures on the signature card may withdraw or
transfer all or any part of the account balance at any time.
Each of you (until we receive written notice to the
contrary) authorizes each other person signing the signature
card to indorse any item payable to you or your order for
deposit to this account or any other transaction with us. We
may charge your account for a check even though payment was
made before the date of the check, unless we have received
written notice of the postdating in time to have a
reasonable opportunity to act. We may refuse any withdrawal
or transfer request which you attempt on forms not approved
by us, by any method we do not specifically permit, which is
greater in number than the frequency permitted, or which is
for an amount greater or less than any withdrawal
limitations. Even if we honor a nonconforming request, we
may treat continued abuse of the stated limitations (if any)
as your act of closing the account. We will use the date the
transaction is completed by us (as opposed to the date you
initiate it) to apply the frequency limitations. The fact
that we may honor withdrawal requests that overdraw the
available account balance does not obligate us to do so
later. See the funds availability policy disclosure for
information about when you can withdraw funds you deposit.
For those accounts for which our funds availability policy
disclosure does not apply, you can ask us when you make a
deposit when those funds will be available for withdrawal.
We may require not less
than 7 days' notice in writing before each withdrawal from
an interest-bearing account other than a time deposit, or
from any other savings account as defined by Regulation D.
Withdrawals from a time account prior to maturity or prior
to any notice period may be restricted and may be subject to
penalty. See your notice of penalty for early withdrawal.
OWNERSHIP OF ACCOUNT
AND BENEFICIARY DESIGNATION -
These rules apply to this account depending on the form of
ownership and beneficiary designation, if any, specified on
the account records. We make no representations as to the
appropriateness or effect of the ownership and beneficiary
designations, except as they determine to whom we pay the
account funds.
Individual Account -
is an account in the name of one person.
Joint Account - With
Survivorship (And Not As Tenants In Common) -
is an account in the name of two or more persons. Each of
you intend that when you die the balance in the account
(subject to any previous pledge to which we have agreed)
will belong to the survivor(s). If two or more of you
survive, you will own the balance in the account as joint
tenants with survivorship and not as tenants in common.
Joint Account - No
Survivorship (As Tenants In Common) -
is owned by two or more persons, but none of you intend
(merely by opening this account) to create any right of
survivorship in any other person. We encourage you to agree
and tell us in writing of the percentage of the deposit
contributed by each of you. This information will not,
however, affect the "number of signatures" necessary for
withdrawal.
Revocable Trust or
Pay-On-Death Account - If two or
more of you create this type of account, you own the account
jointly with survivorship. Beneficiaries cannot withdraw
unless: (1) all persons creating the account die, (2) the
beneficiary is then living, and (3) we have not been given
written notice of a claim under a will. If two or more
beneficiaries are named and survive the death of all persons
creating the account, beneficiaries will own this account in
equal shares, without right of survivorship. The person(s)
creating either of these account types may: (1) change
beneficiaries, (2) change account types, and (3) withdraw
all or part of the account funds at any time.
BUSINESS ACCOUNTS -
Earnings in the form of interest, dividends, or credits will
be paid only on collected funds, unless otherwise provided
by law or our policy. We may require the governing body of
the legal entity opening the account to give us a separate
authorization telling us who is authorized to act on its
behalf. We will honor the authorization until we actually
receive written notice of a change from the governing body
of the legal entity.
STOP PAYMENTS -
You must make any stop-payment order in the manner required
by law and we must receive it in time to give us a
reasonable opportunity to act on it before our stop-payment
cutoff time. To be effective, your stop-payment order must
precisely identify the number, date and amount of the item,
and the payee.
You may stop payment on
any item drawn on your account whether you sign the item or
not, if you have an equal or greater right to withdraw from
this account than the person who signed the item. A release
of the stop-payment request may be made only by the person
who initiated the stop-payment order.
Our stop-payment cutoff
time is one hour after the opening of the next banking day
after the banking day on which we receive the item.
Additional limitations on our obligation to stop payment are
provided by law (e.g., we paid the item in cash or we
certified the item).
TELEPHONE TRANSFERS -
A telephone transfer of funds from this account to another
account with us, if otherwise arranged for or permitted, may
be made by the same persons and under the same conditions
generally applicable to withdrawals made in writing. Unless
a different limitation is disclosed in writing, we restrict
the number of transfers from a savings account to another
account or to third parties, to a maximum of six per month
(less the number of "preauthorized transfers" during the
month). Other account transfer restrictions may be described
elsewhere.
AMENDMENTS AND
TERMINATION - We may change any
term of this agreement. Rules governing changes in interest
rates are provided separately. For other changes, we will
give you reasonable notice in writing or by any other method
permitted by law. We may also close this account at any time
upon reasonable notice to you and tender of the account
balance personally or by mail. Notice from us to any one of
you is notice to all of you.
STATEMENTS -
You must examine your statement of account with "reasonable
promptness." If you discover (or reasonably should have
discovered) any unauthorized signatures or alterations, you
must promptly notify us of the relevant facts. As between
you and us, if you fail to do either of these duties, you
will have to either share the loss with us, or bear the loss
entirely yourself (depending on whether we used ordinary
care and, if not, whether we substantially contributed to
the loss). The loss could be not only with respect to items
on the statement but other items with unauthorized
signatures or alterations by the same wrongdoer.
You agree that the time
you have to examine your statement and report to us will
depend on the circumstances, but will not, in any
circumstance, exceed a total of 30 days from when the
statement is first sent or made available to you.
You further agree that if
you fail to report any unauthorized signatures, alterations,
forgeries, or any other errors in your account within 60
days of when we first send or make the statement available,
you cannot assert a claim against us on any items in that
statement, and as between you and us the loss will be
entirely yours. This 60-day limitation is without regard to
whether we used ordinary care. The limitation in this
paragraph is in addition to that contained in the first
paragraph of this section.
CHECKING ACCOUNT
HOLDERS - This account consists of
a checking sub account and a savings sub account. The Bank
may periodically transfer funds between these two sub
accounts. On a sixth transfer during a calendar month, any
funds in the savings sub account will be transferred back to
the checking sub account. If your Account is a Plan on which
interest is paid, your interest calculation will remain the
same. Otherwise, the savings sub account will be non
interest bearing. The savings sub account will be governed
by the rules governing our other savings accounts. This
process will not affect your available balance, the interest
you may earn, FDIC insurance protection, or your monthly
statement.
ACCOUNT TRANSFER -
This account may not be transferred or assigned without our
prior written consent.
DIRECT DEPOSITS -
If, in connection with a direct deposit plan, we deposit any
amount in an account which should have been returned to the
Federal Government for any reason, you authorize us to
deduct the amount of our liability to the Federal Government
from the account or from any other account you have with us,
without prior notice and at any time, except as prohibited
by law. We may also use any other legal remedy to recover
the amount of our liability.
TEMPORARY ACCOUNT
AGREEMENT - If this option is
selected, this is a temporary account agreement. Each person
who signs in the space designated for signatures on the
signature card (except as indicated to the contrary) may
transact business on this account. However, we may at some
time in the future restrict or prohibit further use of this
account if you fail to comply with the requirements we have
imposed within a reasonable time.
SETOFF -
We may (without prior notice and when permitted by law) set
off the funds in this account against any due and payable
debt you owe us now or in the future, by any of you having
the right of withdrawal, to the extent of such persons' or
legal entity's right to withdraw. If the debt arises from a
note, "any due and payable debt" includes the total amount
of which we are entitled to demand payment under the terms
of the note at the time we set off, including any balance
the due date for which we properly accelerate under the
note.
Setoff is allowed against
the entire account balance, irrespective of the ownership of
the funds in the account. However, all account owners agree
that they are full owners of all of the funds in the
account, irrespective of who deposited the funds in the
account.
This right of setoff does
not apply to this account if: (a) it is an IRA or other
tax-deferred retirement account, or (b) the debt is created
by a consumer credit transaction under a credit card plan
(but this does not affect our rights under any consensual
security interest), or (c) the debtor's right of withdrawal
only arises in a representative capacity. We will not be
liable for the dishonor of any check when the dishonor
occurs because we set off a debt against this account. You
agree to hold us harmless from any claim arising as a result
of our exercise of our right of setoff.
AUTHORIZED SIGNER
(Individual Accounts only) - A
single individual is the owner. The authorized signer is
merely designated to conduct transactions on the owner's
behalf. We undertake no obligation to monitor transactions
to determine that they are on the owner's behalf.
RESTRICTIVE LEGENDS -
We are not required to honor any restrictive legend on
checks you write unless we have agreed in writing to the
restriction. Examples of restrictive legends are "must be
presented within 90 days" or "not valid for more than
$1,000.00."
PAYMENT ORDER OF ITEMS
- The law permits us to pay items
(such as checks or drafts) drawn on your account in any
order. To assist you in handling your account with us, we
are providing you with the following information regarding
how we process the items that you write. When processing
items drawn on your account, our policy is to pay priority
items such as ACH, ATM, POS first and then pay others in
numerical sequence. Lower item numbers are paid first. The
order in which items are paid is important if there is not
enough money in your account to pay all of the items that
are presented. There is no policy that is favorable in every
instance. If the smallest items are paid first, you may have
fewer NSF fees, but the largest, and perhaps more important
items (such as rent or mortgage payments) might not be paid.
If an item is presented without sufficient funds in your
account to pay it, we may, at our discretion, pay the item
or return the item. The amounts of the overdraft and NSF
fees are disclosed elsewhere. By paying items in numerical
sequence, we think our policy attains a reasonable balance
between minimizing additional cost to you and paying your
more important items. We encourage you to make careful
records and practice good account management. This will help
you to avoid writing checks or drafts without sufficient
funds and incurring the resulting fees.
ACH AND WIRE TRANSFERS
- This agreement is subject to
Article 4A of the Uniform Commercial Code - Fund Transfers
as adopted in the state in which you have your account with
us. If you originate a fund transfer for which Fedwire is
used, and you identify by name and number a beneficiary
financial institution, an intermediary financial institution
or a beneficiary, we and every receiving or beneficiary
financial institution may rely on the identifying number to
make payment. We may rely on the number even if it
identifies a financial institution, person or account other
than the one named. You agree to be bound by automated
clearing house association rules. These rules provide, among
other things, that payments made to you, or originated by
you, are provisional until final settlement is made through
a Federal Reserve Bank or payment is otherwise made as
provided in Article 4A-403(a) of the Uniform Commercial
Code. If we do not receive such payment, we are entitled to
a refund from you in the amount credited to your account and
the party originating such payment will not be considered to
have paid the amount so credited. If we receive a credit to
an account you have with us by wire or ACH, we are not
required to give you any notice of the payment order or
credit.
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ELECTRONIC FUND
TRANSFERS
YOUR RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Indicated below are types
of Electronic Fund Transfers we are capable of handling,
some of which may not apply to your account. Please read
this disclosure carefully because it tells you your rights
and obligations for the transactions listed. You should keep
this notice for future reference.
Electronic Fund
Transfers Initiated By Third Parties.
You may authorize a third party to initiate electronic fund
transfers between your account and the third party's
account. These transfers to make or receive payment may be
one-time occurrences or may recur as directed by you. These
transfers may use the Automated Clearing House (ACH) or
other payments network. Your authorization to the third
party to make these transfers can occur in a number of ways.
For example, your authorization to convert a check to an
electronic fund transfer or to electronically pay a returned
check charge can occur when a merchant provides you with
notice and you go forward with the transaction (typically,
at the point of purchase, a merchant will post a sign and
print the notice on a receipt). In all cases, these third
party transfers will require you to provide the third party
with your account number and bank information. This
information can be found on your check as well as on a
deposit or withdrawal slip. Thus, you should only provide
your bank and account information (whether over the phone,
the Internet, or via some other method) to trusted third
parties whom you have authorized to initiate these
electronic fund transfers. Examples of these transfers
include, but are not limited to:
- Preauthorized
credits. You may make
arrangements for certain direct deposits to be accepted
into your checking or savings account(s).
- Preauthorized
payments. You may make
arrangements to pay certain recurring bills from your
checking or savings account(s).
- Electronic check
conversion. You may authorize a
merchant or other payee to make a one-time electronic
payment from your checking account using information from
your check to pay for purchases or pay bills.
- Electronic returned
check charge. You may authorize
a merchant or other payee to initiate an electronic funds
transfer to collect a charge in the event a check is
returned for non-sufficient funds.
First TeleBanc Transfer
Service - types of transfers and charges -
You may access your account by telephone 24
hours a day at (218) 751-5175 or 1-800-448-5175 using your
access number, personal identification number, and account
numbers, to:
- transfer funds between
checking and savings
- make loan payments from
checking or savings
- make Checking Reserve
payments from checking or savings
- transfer funds from a
Home Equity line of credit to checking or savings
- pay bills from your
checking account(s) through First TeleBanc Billpay
- there is a charge of
$2.00 per month or $20.00 per year and $.25 per item
- receive a statement by
Fax ($2.00 fee)
- get information about:
- the account balance
of checking, savings, or loan accounts
- all deposits made to
checking or savings accounts during current and previous
statement cycle
- all withdrawals made
from checking or savings accounts during current and
previous statement cycle
Please refer to TeleBanc
brochure for further information.
ATM Transfers - types
of transfers, dollar limitations, and charges -
You may access your account(s) by ATM using your ATM card
and personal identification number or VISA CheckCard and
personal identification number, to:
- make deposits to
checking or savings account(s)
- get cash withdrawals
from checking or savings account(s)
- dollar limits will be
determined at account opening, but will not exceed
$200.00 per day
- there is a charge of
$1.00 per withdrawal at ATM machines other than 1st
Teller 24
- transfer funds from
savings to checking account(s) or checking to savings
account(s)
- there is a charge of
$1.00 per transfer at ATM machines other than 1st Teller
24
- get information about:
- the account balance
of your checking or savings account(s)
- ATM balances will
include the amount of any available credit under your
Checking Reserve Line of Credit, if applicable
Some of these services may
not be available at all terminals.
Types of VISA®
CheckCard Transactions - You may access your checking
account(s) to purchase goods (in person or by phone), pay
for services (in person or by phone), get cash from a
merchant, if the merchant permits, or from a participating
financial institution, and do anything that a participating
merchant will accept.
VISA CheckCard
Transactions - frequency and dollar limitations and charges
- Using your VISA CheckCard:
- you may make no more
than 99 transactions per day
- dollar limits will be
determined at account opening, but may not exceed
$1,000.00 in transactions per day
Currency
Conversion and International Transactions. When
you use your Visa® Check Card at a merchant that settles in
currency other than US dollars, the charge will be converted
into the US dollar amount. The currency conversion rate used
to determine the transaction amount in US dollars is either
a rate selected by Visa from the range of rates available in
wholesale currency markets for the applicable central
processing date, which rate may vary from the rate Visa
itself receives, or the government-mandated rate in effect
for the applicable central processing date. The conversion
rate
in
effect on the processing date may differ from the rate in
effect on the transaction date or posting date. Visa
USA
charges us a .8%
International Service Assessment on all international
transactions, regardless of whether there is a currency
conversion. If there is a currency conversion, the
International Service Assessment is 1% of the transaction.
In either case, we pass this international transaction fee
on to you. An international transaction is a transaction
where the country of the merchant is outside the
USA.
Advisory Against
Illegal Use. You agree not to use
your card(s) for illegal gambling or other illegal purpose.
Display of a payment card logo by, for example, an online
merchant does not necessarily mean that transactions are
lawful in all jurisdictions in which the cardholder may be
located.
First Net Connection
Computer Transfers - types of transfers and charges -
You may access your account(s) by
computer at www.fnbbemidji.com 24 hours a day using your
access ID and password, to:
- transfer funds between
checking and savings
- make loan payments from
checking or savings
- make Checking Reserve
payments from checking or savings
- transfer funds from a
Home Equity line of credit to checking or savings
- pay bills from your
checking account(s) through First Net Bill Pay
- there is a charge of
$2.00 per month or $20.00 per year, and $.25 per item
- get information about:
- the account balance
of checking, savings, or loan accounts
- all deposits made to
checking or savings accounts during current and previous
statement cycle
- all withdrawals made
from checking or savings accounts during current and
previous statement cycle
- view images of checks
written and processed on current and previous statement
cycle
Termination -
- You may terminate the
electronic fund transfer agreement by notifying us.
- We may terminate the
electronic fund transfer agreement by giving you written
notice within a reasonable time period in advance of the
termination date.
FEES
- We do not charge for
direct deposits to any type of account.
Except as indicated
elsewhere, we do not charge for these electronic fund
transfers.
ATM Operator/Network
Fees. Fees may be charged for ATM
cash withdrawals, funds transfers and/or a balance inquiry
at ATM's other than 1st Teller 24 ATM's, owned by First
National Bank Bemidji.
DOCUMENTATION
- Terminal transfers.
You can get a receipt at the
time you make a transfer to or from your account using an
automated teller machine or point-of-sale terminal.
However, you may not get a receipt if the amount of the
transfer is $15 or less.
- Preauthorized
credits. If you have arranged to
have direct deposits made to your account at least once
every 60 days from the same person or company, you can
call us at (218) 333-4350 or First TeleBanc at (218)
751-5175 or 1-800-448-5175 or inquire at
www.fnbbemidji.com to find out whether or not the deposit
has been made.
- Periodic statements.
You will get a monthly account statement from us for
your checking, statement savings, and money market
accounts.
PREAUTHORIZED PAYMENTS
- Right to stop
payment and procedure for doing so.
If you have told us in advance to make regular payments
out of your account, you can stop any of these payments.
Here is how:
Call or write us at the telephone number or address
listed in this brochure in time for us to receive your
request 3 business days or more before the payment is
scheduled to be made. If you call, we may also require you
to put your request in writing and get it to us within 14
days after you call.
We will charge you $20.00 for each stop-payment order
you give.
- Notice of varying
amounts. If these regular
payments may vary in amount, the person you are going to
pay will tell you, 10 days before each payment, when it
will be made and how much it will be. (You may choose
instead to get this notice only when the payment would
differ by more than a certain amount from the previous
payment, or when the amount would fall outside certain
limits that you set.)
- Liability for
failure to stop payment of preauthorized transfer.
If you order us to stop one of these payments 3 business
days or more before the transfer is scheduled, and we do
not do so, we will be liable for your losses or damages.
FINANCIAL INSTITUTION'S
LIABILITY
Liability for failure
to make transfers. If we do not
complete a transfer to or from your account on time or in
the correct amount according to our agreement with you, we
will be liable for your losses or damages. However, there
are some exceptions. We will not be liable, for instance:
- If, through no fault of
ours, you do not have enough money in your account to make
the transfer.
- If you have an
overdraft line and the transfer would go over the credit
limit.
- If the automated teller
machine where you are making the transfer does not have
enough cash.
- If the terminal or
system was not working properly and you knew about the
breakdown when you started the transfer.
- If circumstances beyond
our control (such as fire or flood) prevent the transfer,
despite reasonable precautions that we have taken.
- There may be other
exceptions stated in our agreement with you.
CONFIDENTIALITY
We will disclose
information to third parties about your account or the
transfers you make:
- where it is necessary
for completing transfers; or
- in order to verify the
existence and condition of your account for a third party,
such as a credit bureau or merchant; or
- in order to comply with
government agency or court orders; or
- if you give us written
permission.
UNAUTHORIZED TRANSFERS
(a) Consumer liability.
•
Generally. Tell us at once if you
believe your card and/or code has been lost or stolen, or if
you believe that an electronic fund transfer has been made
without your permission using information from your check.
Telephoning is the best way of keeping your possible losses
down. You could lose all of the money in your account (plus
your maximum overdraft line of credit). If due to the loss
or theft of your card and/or code, and you notify us within
60 days of when the unauthorized transfer appears on the
statement you can lose no more than $50 if someone used your
card and/or code without permission.
Also, if your statement
shows transfers that you did not make, including those made
by card, code or other means, tell us at once. If you do not
tell us within 60 days after the statement was mailed to
you, you may not get back any money you lost after the 60
days if we prove that we could have stopped someone from
taking the money if you had told us in time.
If a good reason (such as
a long trip or a hospital stay) kept you from telling us, we
will extend the time periods.
• Additional Limit on
Liability for VISA® CheckCard. Unless
you have been grossly negligent or have engaged in fraud,
you will not be liable for any unauthorized transactions
using your lost or stolen VISA CheckCard. This additional
limit on liability does not apply to ATM transactions or to
transactions using your Personal Identification Number which
are not processed by VISA®.
(b) Contact in event of
unauthorized transfer. If you
believe your card and/or code has been lost or stolen, call
or write us at the telephone number or address listed in
this brochure. You should also call the number or write to
the address listed in this brochure if you believe a
transfer has been made using the information from your check
without your permission.
RIGHT TO BRING CIVIL
ACTION
You may bring a civil
action against any person violating any provision of
Minnesota Statutes § 47.69 (governing consumer privacy and
unauthorized withdrawals).
If you prevail in such an
action, you may recover the greater of your actual damages
or $500. You may also be entitled to recover punitive
damages, your court costs and reasonable attorney's fees.
TIME NEEDED TO COMPLETE
TERMINAL TRANSACTIONS
- Withdrawals made at a
terminal will normally be completed and charged to your
account the same business day if made before 4:00 P.M.
- Deposits made at a
terminal will normally be credited to your account the
same business day if made before 4:00 P.M.
- Transfers between
accounts will normally be completed the same business day
if made before 4:00 P.M.
- First TeleBanc and
First Net Connection transfers occurring before 6:30 P.M.
each business day will normally be posted to your accounts
that same business day.
POINT-OF-SALE
TRANSACTIONS
Payment for goods or
services made in this manner shall not affect any of the
rights, protections, or liabilities in existing law
concerning a cash or credit sale made by means other than
through the use of a terminal.
You cannot reverse a
point-of-sale transaction.
ERROR RESOLUTION NOTICE
In Case of Errors or
Questions About Your Electronic Transfers, Call or Write us
at the telephone number or address listed in this brochure,
as soon as you can, if you think your statement or receipt
is wrong or if you need more information about a transfer
listed on the statement or receipt. We must hear from you no
later than 60 days after we sent the FIRST statement on
which the problem or error appeared.
- Tell us your name and
account number (if any).
- Describe the error or
the transfer you are unsure about, and explain as clearly
as you can why you believe it is an error or why you need
more information.
- Tell us the dollar
amount of the suspected error.
If you tell us orally, we
may require that you send us your complaint or question in
writing within 10 business days.
We will determine whether
an error occurred within 10 business days (5 business days
for VISA CheckCard point-of-sale transactions and 20
business days if the transfer involved a new account) after
we hear from you and will correct any error promptly. If we
need more time, however, we may take up to 45 days (90 days
if the transfer involved a new account, a point-of-sale
transaction, or a foreign-initiated transfer) to investigate
your complaint or question. If we decide to do this, we will
credit your account within 10 business days (5 business days
for VISA CheckCard point-of-sale transactions and 20
business days if the transfer involved a new account) for
the amount you think is in error, so that you will have the
use of the money during the time it takes us to complete our
investigation. If we ask you to put your complaint or
question in writing and we do not receive it within 10
business days, we may not credit your account. Your account
is considered a new account for the first 30 days after the
first deposit is made, unless each of you already has an
established account with us before this account is opened.
We will tell you the
results within three business days after completing our
investigation. If we decide that there was no error, we will
send you a written explanation.
You may ask for copies of
the documents that we used in our investigation.
FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF
BEMIDJI
P.O. BOX 670
BEMIDJI, MINNESOTA 56619-0670
Business Days: Monday through Friday
Excluding Federal Holidays
Phone: (218) 751-2430
MORE DETAILED INFORMATION IS AVAILABLE
ON REQUEST
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YOUR ABILITY TO WITHDRAW
FUNDS
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 VISA
CheckCard transactions and First TeleBanc telephone and
preauthorized transfers to other accounts of yours with us.
Checking 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 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 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.
If you make a deposit at
an ATM before 4:00 P.M. 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 at an ATM after 4:00 P.M. or
on a 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
elsewhere in this disclosure for the type of check that you
deposited.
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 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 on the
first business day, 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.
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 customer,
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 eleventh business day
after the day of your deposit.
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TRUTH-IN-SAVINGS
DISCLOSURE
FIRST FREE CHECKING
ACCOUNT
Minimum balance to open
the account - You must deposit
$100.00 to open this account.
- Unlimited check writing
- No per check charge
- Checks safekept, statement issued
monthly without cancelled checks
FIRST CHECKING ACCOUNT
Minimum balance to open
the account - You must deposit
$100.00 to open this account.
Minimum balance to
avoid imposition of fees - A
maintenance fee of $3.00 will be imposed every monthly
service charge cycle if the balance in the account falls
below $400.00 any day of the cycle.
Checks will be returned in
statements as images of original checks.
There will be a $5.00 fee
per month imposed for return of actual checks in place of
check images.
FIRST INSURED MONEY
MARKET ACCOUNT
Rate Information -
Your interest rate and annual percentage yield may change.
Frequency of rate changes - We may change the
interest rate on your account every week.
Determination of rate -
At our discretion, we may change the interest rate on your
account.
Compounding and
crediting frequency - Interest
will be compounded every month. Interest will be credited to
your account every month.
Minimum balance to open
the account - You must deposit
$100.00 to open this account.
Minimum balance to
avoid imposition of fees - A
maintenance fee of $3.00 will be imposed every monthly
service charge cycle if the balance in the account falls
below $1,000.00 any day of the monthly service charge cycle.
Daily balance
computation method - We use the
daily balance method to calculate the interest on your
account. This method applies a daily periodic rate to the
principal in the account each day.
Accrual of interest on
noncash deposits - Interest begins
to accrue on the business day you deposit noncash items (for
example, checks).
Transaction
limitations:
Transfers from a First
Insured Money Market account to another account or to third
parties by preauthorized, automatic, First TeleBanc
telephone, or First Net Connection transfer are limited to
six per month with no more than three by check or similar
order to third parties.
THRIFT ACCOUNT
Rate Information -
Your interest rate and annual percentage yield may change.
Frequency of rate changes - We may change the
interest rate on your account every week.
Determination of rate -
At our discretion, we may change the interest rate on your
account.
Compounding and
crediting frequency - Interest
will be compounded semiannually. Interest will be credited
to your account semiannually.
Minimum balance to open
the account - You must deposit
$50.00 to open this account.
Minimum balance to
avoid imposition of fees - A
maintenance fee of $1.00 will be imposed every monthly
service charge cycle if the average daily balance for the
monthly service charge cycle falls below $50.00. The average
daily balance is calculated by adding the principal in the
account for each day of the period and dividing that figure
by the number of days in the period. This fee will be
charged for the service charge cycle if the average daily
balance requirement is not met for the cycle.
Daily balance
computation method - We use the
daily balance method to calculate the interest on your
account. This method applies a daily periodic rate to the
principal in the account each day.
Accrual of interest on
noncash deposits - Interest begins
to accrue on the business day you deposit noncash items (for
example, checks).
Transaction
limitations:
Transfers from a Thrift
Savings account to another account or to third parties by
preauthorized, automatic, First TeleBanc telephone, or First
Net Connection transfer are limited to six per month with no
transfers by check, draft, debit card, or similar order to
third parties.
Fees:
A withdrawal fee of $.25
will be charged for each withdrawal in excess of two during
a monthly service charge cycle.
FIRST PLUS CHECKING
ACCOUNT
Rate Information -
Your interest rate and annual percentage yield may change.
Frequency of rate changes - We may change the
interest rate on your account every week.
Determination of rate -
At our discretion, we may change the interest rate on your
account.
Compounding and
crediting frequency - Interest
will be compounded every month. Interest will be credited to
your account every month.
Minimum balance to open
the account - You must deposit
$100.00 to open this account.
Minimum balance to
avoid imposition of fees - A
maintenance fee of $5.00 will be imposed every service
charge cycle if the balance in the account falls below
$800.00 any day of the cycle.
Daily balance
computation method - We use the
daily balance method to calculate the interest on your
account. This method applies a daily periodic rate to the
principal in the account each day.
Accrual of interest on
noncash deposits - Interest begins
to accrue no later than the business day we receive credit
for the deposit of noncash items (for example, checks).
Checks will be returned in
statements as images of original checks.
There will be a $5.00 fee
per month imposed for return of actual checks in place of
check images.
STATEMENT SAVINGS
ACCOUNT
Rate Information -
Your interest rate and annual percentage yield may change.
Frequency of rate changes - We may change the
interest rate on your account every week.
Determination of rate -
At our discretion, we may change the interest rate on your
account.
Compounding and
crediting frequency - Interest
will be compounded every month. Interest will be credited to
your account every month.
Minimum balance to open
the account - You must deposit
$100.00 to open this account.
Minimum balance to
avoid imposition of fees - A
maintenance fee of $1.00 will be imposed every monthly
service charge cycle if the average daily balance for the
monthly service charge cycle falls below $200.00. The
average daily balance is calculated by adding the principal
in the account for each day of the period and dividing that
figure by the number of days in the period. This fee will
not be charged to children under 18 years of age (including
Young Investors) or the developmentally handicapped.
Daily balance
computation method - We use the
daily balance method to calculate the interest on your
account. This method applies a daily periodic rate to the
principal in the account each day.
Accrual of interest on
noncash deposits - Interest begins
to accrue on the business day you deposit noncash items (for
example, checks).
Transaction
limitations:
Transfers from a Statement
Savings account to another account or to third parties by
preauthorized, automatic, First TeleBanc telephone, or First
Net Connection transfers are limited to six per month with
no transfers by check, draft, debit card, or similar order
to third parties.
Fees:
A withdrawal fee of $.25
will be charged for each withdrawal (including First
TeleBanc telephone transfers, First Net Connection
transfers, ATM withdrawals, and preauthorized withdrawals)
in excess of five during a service charge cycle.
HEALTH
SAVINGS ACCOUNT
Minimum balance to open
the account - You must deposit
$100.00 to open this account
-Unlimited check writing
-
No
per check charge
-
Checks
safekept, statement issued semi-annually without the
cancelled checksRate Information - Your interest rate and
annual percentage yield may change.
Frequency
of rate changes - We may change the interest rate on your
account every week.
Determination
of rate - At our discretion, we may change the interest
rate on your account.
Compounding
and crediting frequency - Interest will be compounded
every month. Interest will be credited to your
account every month.
Daily
Balance computation method - We use the daily balance
method to calculate the interest on your account.
This method applies a daily periodic rate to the principal
in the account each day.
Accrual
of interest on noncash deposits - Interest begins to
accrue no later than the business day we receive credit
for the deposit of noncash items (for example,
checks)
Rate
information:
Tier 1 - If your daily
collected balance is $25,000 or more, the interest paid on
the collected balance in your account will be
(1:1_percent) % with an annual percentage yield of
(2:2_percent) %.
Tier 2 - If your daily collected balance
is more than $5,000 but less than $24,999.99, the interest
rate paid on the collected balance in your account will be
((3:3_percent)% with an annual percentage yield of
((4:4_percent)%.
Tier 3 - If your daily collected balance
is more than $2,500 but less than $4,999.99, the interest
rate paid on the collected balance in your account will be
(5:5_percent) % with an annual percentage yield of
(6:6_percent) %.
Tier 4
- If your daily collected balance
is more than $0 but less than $2,499.99, the interest rate
paid on the collected balance in your account will be
(7:7_percent) % with an annual percentage yield of
(8:8_percent) %.
Fees:
$10.00
Account set-up fee
$25.00
Excess Contribution fee
$25.00
Prohibited Transaction ( a withdrawal for a non-qualified
reason)
$25.00
Closing fee
$5.00
HSA check card replacement fee
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Please note - YOUR DEPOSIT ACCOUNT brochure -- Electronic
Fund Transfers, Your Rights and Responsibilities -- does
not apply.
YOUNG INVESTORS ACCOUNT
Rate Information -
Your interest rate and annual percentage yield may change.
Frequency of rate changes - We may change the
interest rate on your account every week.
Determination of rate -
At our discretion, we may change the interest rate on your
account.
Compounding and
crediting frequency - Interest
will be compounded every quarter. Interest will be credited
to your account every quarter.
Daily balance
computation method - We use the
daily balance method to calculate the interest on your
account. This method applies a daily periodic rate to the
principal in the account each day.
Accrual of interest on
noncash deposits - Interest begins
to accrue on the business day you deposit noncash items (for
example, checks).
Transaction
limitations:
Transfers from a Young
Investors account to another account or to third parties by
preauthorized, automatic, First TeleBanc telephone, or First
Net Connection transfer are limited to six per month with no
transfers by check, draft, debit card, or similar order to
third parties.
Fees:
A withdrawal fee of $.25
will be charged for each withdrawal (including First
TeleBanc telephone transfers, First Net Connection
transfers, ATM withdrawals, and preauthorized withdrawals)
in excess of five during a monthly service charge cycle.
COMMON FEATURES
The following fees may
be assessed against your account and the following
transaction limitations, if any, apply to your account.
- Replace lost, stolen, or damaged
ATM card or VISA CheckCard - $5.00
- ATM cash withdrawal or funds transfer
at ATMs we do not own - $1.00
- (Fee waived for 55 Connection members)
- Check printing - (fee depends on style
and quantity of check ordered)
- Counter checks - $.25 each
- Copies of safekept checks - $2.00 each
- Cancelled checks returned in place of
images - $5.00 per month
- The categories of
transactions for which an NSF (Non-sufficient funds) or
overdraft fee may be imposed are those by any of the
following means: check, in-person withdrawal, ATM
withdrawal, or other electronic means.
- NSF (Non-sufficient funds)
- paid item fee - $20.00
- returned item fee - $20.00
- Continuous overdraft - $5.00 per day
- Account research - $25.00 per hour
- Account balancing assistance - $25.00
per hour
- Stop payments - each - $20.00 each
- Stop payments
- for correspondent bank drafts - $20.00
plus correspondents charge each
- Account closed within 180 days of
opening - $25.00
- Photocopies (first three free) - $.25
each
- (Fee waived for 55 Connection members)
- Rejected items - $1.00 each
- This fee is charged for rejected checks
due to misprinting by companies other than Deluxe.
We may require not less
than 7 days' notice in writing before each withdrawal from
an interest-bearing account other than a time deposit, or
from any other savings account as defined by Regulation D.
Withdrawals from a time account prior to maturity or prior
to any notice period may be restricted and may be subject to
penalty. See your notice of penalty for early withdrawal.
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