NRS97A.170. Rights of issuer or service provider; action to determine liability for unauthorized negotiable instrument used to make payment.

      1.  An issuer or service provider shall be deemed to be a payee with respect to any payment made on a credit card account of a cardholder by a check or other negotiable instrument.

      2.  Upon the posting of a payment on a credit card account of a cardholder by the issuer or service provider, an issuer has changed its position in reliance thereon if the payment was made by check or other negotiable instrument.

      3.  A payment made on a credit card account of a cardholder by a check or other negotiable instrument is received by the issuer in good faith if the issuer did not have actual knowledge that the check or other negotiable instrument was forged, altered or unauthorized when it was posted to the account.

      4.  An action or proceeding brought to determine liability for an allegedly forged, altered or unauthorized check or other negotiable instrument used to make a payment on a credit card account of a cardholder must be determined pursuant to the provisions of chapter 104 of NRS.

      (Added to NRS by 1995, 2600)