Check Printer and Check Number Act – IBA Compliance Connection

We are converting from a state bank to a national bank. Do we still need to include a “starting date” on the face of our checks now that we are a national bank?

Jun 2, 2016

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No you are not required to include the date a deposit account was opened (“starting date”) on each check. The Illinois Consumer Deposit Account Act and the Check Printer and Check Number Act previously required banks to clearly display the month and year in which a deposit account was opened on the face of each…

Does Illinois law require us to print the month and date that a checking account was opened on the front of a check?

Sep 9, 2009

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Please note that this answer discusses the requirements of the Check Printer and Check Number Act before it was amended in 2014. For a current version of the law, please see 205 ILCS 690/10. Illinois law requires checks drawn on a consumer deposit account to include the month and year the account was opened and a check…

What information is required to be included on checks? Some of our businesses are submitting checks that do not include the name of the bank on which the check is drawn (though they do include the bank’s routing number).

Jun 19, 2009

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Please note that this answer discusses the requirements of the Check Printer and Check Number Act before it was amended in 2014. For a current version of the law, please see 205 ILCS 690/10. Under the Uniform Commercial Code, a check is defined as an unconditional order to pay a fixed amount of money payable on…

Illinois law requires us to start numbering checks at 101, but our customers are complaining that some merchants are refusing any check with a number lower than 301. Why is this a requirement, and do you have any suggestions for a resolution?

Jun 7, 2006

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Please note that this answer discusses the requirements of the Check Printer and Check Number Act before it was amended in 2014. For a current version of the law discussed in this answer, please see 205 ILCS 690/10. Most likely, many of the customers who are opening new deposit accounts at your bank are moving to…

Topic: Check Printer and Check Number Act

We are converting from a state bank to a national bank. Do we still need to include a “starting date” on the face of our checks now that we are a national bank?

Does Illinois law require us to print the month and date that a checking account was opened on the front of a check?

What information is required to be included on checks? Some of our businesses are submitting checks that do not include the name of the bank on which the check is drawn (though they do include the bank’s routing number).

Illinois law requires us to start numbering checks at 101, but our customers are complaining that some merchants are refusing any check with a number lower than 301. Why is this a requirement, and do you have any suggestions for a resolution?