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In
the Heart of the Community, with the Community
at Heart.
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Super NOW Checking Account
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Truth-in-Savings Disclosure
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Eligibility Requirements
Maintenance fees will be waived for customers age 55 and over,
upon request (business accounts are not applicable).
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Variable Rate Information
The interest
rate on your account is .55%, with an annual percentage
yield (APY) of .55%. Your interest rate and annual percentage
yield may change.
Determination of Rate
At our discretion, we may change the interest rate on your account.
Frequency of Rate
Changes
We may change the interest rate on your account at any time.
Limitations on Rate
Changes
There are no maximum or minimum interest rate limits for this account.
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Compounding and Crediting
Interest will
be compounded monthly and will be credited to your account monthly.
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Minimum Balance Requirements
You must deposit
$2,500.00 to open this account. Minimum balance fee of $6.50 will
be imposed every month if the balance in the account falls below
$2,500.00 any day of the month.
You must maintain a minimum daily balance of $2,500.00 in the
account each day to obtain the disclosed annual percentage yield.
You will earn interest for every day during the period that your
account equals or exceeds the minimum daily balance requirement.
You will earn interest for the entire statement period regardless
of your balance.
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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.
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Accrual on Noncash
Deposits
Interest begins
to accrue on the business day you deposit noncash items (for example,
checks).
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| Fees and Charges |
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| The
following fees and charges may be assessed against your account |
| Check printing fees vary
by the style of check ordered |
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| Check Cashing (non-customer) |
$5.00 |
| Checking Account Hold |
$30.00 |
| Special Statements |
$3.00 |
| Non-Sufficient Funds (NSF
& Overdrafts) |
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| Check Paid - Returned |
$30.00 |
| Daily Overdraft Fee |
$15.00 |
| Stop Payment Order |
$15.00 |
| Money Orders (only up to
$300) |
$2.00 |
| Cashiers Checks to $500 |
$3.00 |
| Cashiers Checks over $500
(per hundred) |
$.50 |
| Regular Travelers Cheques
1% of Total Purchase |
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| Travelers Cheques for Two
(per hundred) |
$1.75 |
| Wire Transfers - Incoming |
$10.00 |
| Wire Transfers - Outgoing |
$15.00 |
| International Wire |
$50.00 |
| Facsimile Service (FAX)
- Incoming First Page |
$2.00 |
| Facsimile Service (FAX -
Outgoing First Page |
$3.00 |
| Facsimile Service (FAX)
- Additional Pages - Incoming and Outgoing |
$1.00 |
| Photocopies |
$0.25 |
| Safe Deposit Box Fees (3X5
box) |
$18.00 |
| Safe Deposit Box Fees (5X5.5
box) |
$20.00 |
| Safe Deposit Box Fees (3X10.5
box) |
$20.00 |
| Safe Deposit Box Drilling |
$100.00 |
| Lost Safe Deposit Box Key |
$20.00 |
| Overdraft Protection/Sweep
Authorization Annual Fee -Also Per Transfer Fee of $.50 |
$15.00 |
| Account Balancing/Research/Reconcilement-First
Time Free - 10 Minute Maximum; Thereafter $10/hour - Minimum $10.00 |
| Garnishments |
$25.00 |
| Levies |
$25.00 |
| Collection Fees - First
$1000 |
$5.00 |
| Over $1000 |
$10.00 |
| Notary Fees (non-customer
only) |
$5.00 |
| Indemnity Bonds |
$15.00 |
| Bond Coupon Collection |
$10.00 |
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Safe Deposit
Box Fees |
| Safe deposit box fees are payable
each year on May 15th. Partial years will be pro-rated. A $3.00 discount
will be granted if fee is automatically debited from a checking or savings
account. |
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| Transaction
Limitations
No transaction limitations apply to this account.
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| Description of
other Accounts Available
Deposit accounts
offered by Benton State Bank/Shullsburg Community Bank and Tennyson/Potosi
Community Bank include: Statement Savings, Regular checking, Hometown
Advantage Checking, NOW, Super NOW, Money Market and various Certificates
of Deposit.
More detailed information
on applicable fees are included with the attached "schedule of
fees and charges" and also upon request.
More detailed information
on the accounts described above is available upon request. |
| Customer Privacy Policy
Disclosure |
| Benton
State Bank/Shullsburg Community Bank/Tennyson/Potosi Community Bank
and our affiliated parent company, BSB Community Bancorporation
Inc., continue to recognize and respect your personal privacy. Confidentiality
is a key part of providing quality financial services. Our organization
continues its commitment to upholding high standards of privacy
for your protection and benefit. Whether you are an existing customer
or are considering a relationship with us, we want you to know how
we collect, use and retain information about you and your business
relationship with us. Summarized below is our customer privacy program.
Recognition of Customer
Privacy Expectations: Our financial institution respects that
our customers expect and deserve privacy. Information that has been
entrusted to us will be held in the strictest confidence. We maintain
high standards to ensure that the information is used only for appropriate
business reasons in accordance with applicable laws and regulations.
Collection, Use and
Retention of Customer Information: We collect, use and retain
customer information from a variety of sources for the purpose of
administering our business or to provide products, services or other
opportunities for our customers. Customer information is obtained
directly from the customer, is collected when recording customer
activity and related transactions, or is requested with your permission
from outside sources (such as employment verifications, credit reports,
etc.). This information is used to evaluate and manage our risks;
to protect and administer your accounts, records and funds; to comply
with applicable laws and regulations; to develop and enhance our
portfolio of products and services and other valid business purposes.
Information Accuracy:
Benton State Bank/Shullsburg Community Bank/Tennyson/Potosi Community
Bank and our affiliate company continually strive to maintain complete
and accurate information about you and your accounts. If you ever
believe that our information is inaccurate or incomplete, please
notify us immediately. We will review your concerns and correct
any inaccuracies. Under the Fair Credit Reporting Act, you have
the right to notify us if you believe we have reported inaccurate
information about your account to any Consumer Reporting Agency.
Please submit your request for correction in writing and include
your full name, current address, social security number, account
number, telephone number, and the information you believe is inaccurate.
Please inform us of the reason you believe the information is incorrect
and we will research and correct information appropriately. Send
your note to:
Benton State Bank
42 W Main Street
PO Box 27
Benton WI 53803
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| Employee Access
to Customer Information: Benton State Bank/Shullsburg Community
Bank Tennyson/Potosi Community Bank and our affiliate maintain security
levels and related procedures to assist in the prevention of unauthorized
access to confidential information within our organization. Secured
access is delegated upon a "need to know" basis commensurate with
each employee's responsibilities. Our employees are instructed in
the importance of confidentiality and are provided with written
privacy guidelines. Appropriate disciplinary action will be taken
to enforce our privacy standards.
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| Maintaining Customer
Privacy with Third Party Business Partners: It is necessary
upon occasion to provide personally identifiable information about
our customers to a party outside of our organization. Benton State
Bank/Shullsburg Community Bank/Tennyson/Potosi Community Bank and
our affiliate are highly selective in choosing vendors and service
companies that assist us in servicing our customers. These relationships
are maintained solely to perform services on our behalf including,
but not limited to, customer statement rendering, items processing,
electronic data processing services, or other services required
to support our products and services. These business partners agree
to safeguard our confidential customer information and they must
abide by applicable law.
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| Internet and Electronic
Privacy: With the rapid expansion of technological capability
in our industry and in our institution, Benton State Bank/Shullsburg
Community Bank/Tennyson/Potosi Community Bank is committed to maintaining
and expanding effective systems to facilitate the convenient delivery
of services, regardless of the methods of delivery. We value our
customers and recognize the importance of your trust and confidence
in us. Information gathered via the internet, when established,
or other electronic means will be used only for appropriate purposes
such as evaluation of our web pages' effectiveness, designing new
products or services for the benefit of our customers or estimating
system capacity needed to conveniently service our customers.
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| Restricted Disclosure
of Information: Responsible use of information benefits our
customers by protecting your privacy and by enabling us to offer
you improved products and services based on your needs. It is our
policy to prohibit the sale of customer information to parties outside
of our corporate family. Benton State Bank/Shullsburg Community
Bank/Tennyson/Potosi Community Bank and our affiliate does not reveal
specific information about your accounts or other personally identifiable
data to external parties unless:
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You request disclosure
of the information
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The information is
necessary to complete a transaction or perform a service at
your request;
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The information is
provided to a reputable credit bureau or similar information
reporting agency; or
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The disclosure is
otherwise lawfully permitted or required.
We are permitted to share
information about your transaction and account experience with our
affiliate through a central information system, and also with companies
that perform marketing services on our behalf, and with whom we
have joint marketing agreements. This assists us in improving the
type and selection of services available to you. We are also permitted
by law to share other customer information with our branches. Shullsburg
Community Bank and Tennyson/Potosi Community Bank are branches of
the Benton State Bank.
We do not disclose nonpublic
personal information about former customers, except as permitted
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Funds Availability Policy
Disclosure |
| Purpose of This
Disclosure
The information here describes our policy of holding deposited items
in a transaction account before funds are made available to you
for withdrawal. This is what is called our Funds Availability Policy.
For purposes of this
disclosure, the terms "you"/"your" refer to the customer and the
terms "our"/"we"/"us" refer to the Bank.
Generally, transaction
accounts are accounts which would permit an unlimited number of
payments by check to third persons, and also an unlimited number
of telephonic and preauthorized transfers to third persons or other
accounts you may have with us.
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| Determining the
Availability of Your Deposit
The length
of the delay varies depending on the type of deposit and is explained
below. When we delay your ability to withdraw funds from a deposit,
you may not withdraw the funds in cash, and we will not pay checks
you have written on your account by using these funds. 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.
When we delay your ability
to withdraw funds, the length of the delay is counted in Business
Days from the day of your deposit. The term "Business Day" means
any day other than a Saturday, Sunday or federally declared legal
holiday, and the term "Banking Day" means that part of any Business
Day on which we are open to the public for carrying on substantially
all of our banking functions.
In order to establish
that a deposit is made on a particular business day, we establish
a cut-off time. You must make your deposit before the cut-off time
in order for it to be considered to have been made on that business
day. The cut-off time that we use depends on the location where
you make your deposit.
If you make a deposit
at Benton State Bank before 2:30 pm 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 2:30 pm or on a day that we are not
open, we will consider the deposit made on the next Business Day
we are open.
If you make a deposit
at Shullsburg Community Bank or Tennyson/Potosi Community Bank before
2:00 pm 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 2:00 pm or on a day that we are not open, we will consider
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| Availability
Schedule
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
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| Holds on Other
Funds for Check Cashing
If we cash a check for you that is drawn on another financial institution,
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.
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| Holds on Other
Funds in Another Account
If we accept for deposit a check that is drawn on another financial
institution, 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.
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| Longer Delays May
Apply
In some cases, we will not make all of the funds that you deposit
by check available to you according to the previously stated availability
schedule. 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 $100.00 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 to you according
to the previously stated availability schedule, 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.
Funds you deposit by
check may be delayed for a longer period under the following circumstances:
(a) if we believe a check you deposit will not be paid; (b) if you
deposit checks totaling more than $5,000.00 on any one day; (c)
if you redeposit a check that has been returned unpaid; (d) if you
have overdrawn your account repeatedly in the last six months; or
(e) if an emergency condition arises that would not enable us to
make the funds available to you, such as the failure of computer
or communications equipment.
We will notify you if
we delay your availability 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.
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ELECTRONIC FUND TRANSFER
DISCLOSURE |
| For purposes of
this disclosure the terms "we", "us" and "our" refer to the Bank named
above. The terms "you" and "your" refer to the recipient of this disclosure.
The Electronic Fund Transfer
Act and Regulation E require Banks to provide certain information to customers
regarding electronic fund transfers (EFTs). This disclosure applies to
any EFT service you receive from us related to an account established
primarily for personal, family or household purposes. Examples of EFT
services include direct deposits to your account and automatic regular
payments made from your account to a third party.
This disclosure contains important
information about your use of electronic fund transfer (EFT) services
provided by this Bank in relation to accounts established primarily for
personal, family or household purposes. Please read this document thoroughly
and retain it for future reference.
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| Electronic Fund Transfer
Services Provided
Preauthorized Transfer Services
You may arrange for the preauthorized automatic deposit of funds to your
checking account(s), savings account(s), money market account(s), and
NOW account(s).
You may arrange for the preauthorized
automatic payment of bills from your checking account(s), savings account(s),
money market account(s), and NOW account(s).
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| Limitations on Transactions
Check Cashing Fees- Benton
State Bank/Shullsburg Community Bank and Tennyson/Potosi Community Bank
reserves the right to charge a $5.00 check cashing fee for non-customers.
Cash Out Limitation - Benton
State Bank/Shullsburg Community Bank and Tennyson/Potosi Community Bank
reserves the right to limit cash out for payment of any draft to $5,000.
Any remaining balance may be paid through an official check or bank draft.
The Benton State Bank/Shullsburg
Community Bank and Tennyson/Potosi Community Bank reserves the right to
close any deposit account at our discretion.
Limits on Transfers from
Certain Accounts.
Federal regulation limits the number of telephonic transfers and preauthorized
electronic transfers to third parties (including Point of Sale transactions)
from money market and savings type accounts. You are limited to six such
transfers from each money market and/or savings type account(s) you have
each statement period for purposes of making a payment to a third party
or by use of a telephone.
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| Notice of Rights and
Responsibilities
The use of any electronic fund
transfer services described in this document creates certain rights and
responsibilities regarding these services as described below.
Right to Receive Documentation
of Your Transfers
Periodic Statements.
If your account is subject to receiving a monthly statement, all EFT transactions
will be reported on it. If your account is subject to receiving a statement
less frequently than monthly, then you will continue to receive your statement
on that cycle, unless there are EFT transactions, in which case you will
receive a monthly statement.
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| Preauthorized
Deposits.
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 608-759-3600 to find out whether or not the deposit
has been made.
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| Rights Regarding
Preauthorized Transfers
Rights and Procedures to
Stop Payments.
If you have instructed us to make regular preauthorized transfers out
of your account, you may stop any of the payments. To stop a payment,
call us at: 608-759-3600
or write to:
Benton State Bank
42 W Main St
PO Box 27
Benton WI 53803
We must receive your call or
written request at least three (3) business days prior to the scheduled
payment. If you call, please have the following information ready; your
account number, the date the transfer is to take place, to whom the transfer
is being made and the amount of the scheduled transfer. If you call, we
will require you to put your request in writing and deliver it to us within
fourteen (14) days after you call.
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| Notice of Varying
Amounts
If you have arranged
for automatic periodic payments to be deducted from your checking or savings
account and these payments vary in amount, you will be notified by the
person or company you are going to pay ten days prior to the payment date
of the amount to be deducted. 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.
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| Our Liability
for Failure to Stop Preauthorized Transfer Payments.
If you order us to
stop one of the payments and have provided us with the information we
need within three (3) business days prior to the scheduled transfer, and
we do not stop the transfer, we will be liable for your losses or damages.
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| Your Responsibility
to Notify Us of Loss or Theft
Consumer Liability
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| For Preauthorized
Transfers
If your statement shows transfers you did not make, tell us at once. If
you fail to telephone us or write us within sixty (60) days of receiving
your periodic statement or other receipt of an electronic fund transfer
which appears to be unauthorized, you will be liable for the lesser of
$50.00 or the amount of the unauthorized electronic fund transfer that
appears on the periodic statement or receipt or that occurs during the
sixty (60) day period. If you do not tell us within sixty (60) days after
the periodic statement or receipt was mailed to you, you may not receive
back any of the money you lost after the sixty (60) days, and therefore,
you could lose all the money in your account (plus your maximum overdraft
line of credit), if we can prove that we could have stopped someone from
taking the money had you given us notice in time.
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| In Case of
Errors or Questions About Your Transactions
In case of errors
or questions about your electronic fund transfers:
Call us at: 608-759-3600
or write to:
Benton State Bank
42 W Main St
PO Box 27
Benton WI 53803
or use the current information
on your most recent account statement.
Notification should be made
as soon as possible if you think your statement or receipt is wrong or
if you need more information about a transaction listed on the statement
or receipt. You must contact the bank no later than 60 days after the
bank sent you the first statement on which the problem or error appears.
You must be prepared to provide the following information:
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Your name and account number
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A description of the error
or transaction you are unsure about along with an explanation as to
why you believe it is an error or why you need more information.
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The dollar amount of the
suspected error.
If you provide oral notice,
you will be required to send in your complaint or question in writing
within ten (10) business days.
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| We will determine
whether an error occurred within ten (10) business days (twenty (20) business
days for new accounts) after we hear from you and will correct any error
promptly. If we need more time, however, we may take up to forty-five
(45) days (ninety (90) days for new accounts and foreign initiated transfer(s)
to investigate your complaint or questions. If we decide to do this, we
will credit your account within ten (10) business days (twenty business
(20) days for new accounts) for the amount which you think is in error,
so that you will have the use of the money during the time it takes to
complete our investigation. If we ask you to put your complaint or question
in writing and we do not receive it within ten (10) business days, we
may not credit your account. The extended time periods for new accounts
apply to all electronic fund transfers that occur within the first thirty
(30) calendar days after the first deposit to the account is made, including
those for foreign initiated transactions.
We will tell you the results
within three (3) 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.
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| Liability for
Failure to Complete Transaction
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
as provided by law. However, there are some exceptions. We will NOT be
liable, for instance:
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If through no fault of
ours, you do not have enough money in your account to make the transfer.
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If the transfer would result
in your exceeding the credit limit on your line of credit, if you
have one.
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If circumstances beyond
our control (such as fire or flood, computer or machine breakdown,
or failure or interruption of communications facilities) prevent the
transfer, despite reasonable precautions we have taken.
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If we have terminated our
Agreement with you.
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If we receive inaccurate
or incomplete information needed to complete a transaction.
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In the case of preauthorized
transfers, we will not be liable where there is a breakdown of the
system which would normally handle the transfer.
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If the funds in the account
are subject to legal action preventing a transfer to or from your
account.
There may be other exceptions
provided by applicable law.
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| Charges for
Transfers or The Right to Make Transfers
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| Please see our schedule
of fees and charges for any charges that may be incurred by you for usage
of our automatic teller machines, telephone banking system, or from usage
of your debit cards.
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| Disclosure
of Account Information |
| We will disclose
information to third parties about your account or electronic fund transfers
made to your account: |
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Where necessary to complete
a transfer or to investigate and resolve errors involving the transfer(s);
or
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In order to verify the
existence and condition of your account for a third party such as
a credit bureau or merchant; or
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In order to comply with
government agency or court orders; or
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With your consent.
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| Definition
of Business Day
Business days are
Monday through Friday excluding holidays.
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| Additional Provisions
The Shullsburg Community
Bank and Tennyson/Potosi Community Bank are branches of the Benton State
Bank. The branch and other facilities (as may apply in the future) are
in fact parts of the same insured institution and deposits held at each
facility are not separately insured.
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| Automated
Teller Terminal Locations
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| Zephyr
Depot
119 Main St
Benton WI 53803
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| Miner
Depot
206 State Road 11
Shullsburg WI 53586
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| Bryson's
Trading Post
1849 Galena St
Darlington WI 53530 |
Tenosi Pump N Go
327 Hwy 61 S
Potosi WI 53820 |
Gulers
Corner
1895 State Road 80S
Cuba City WI 53807
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Disclosures Regarding Electronic
"Wholesale Credit" Transactions
Subject to Uniform Commercial Code Article 4A
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Provisional Payment:
Credit given by us to you with respect to an automated clearing house
credit entry is provisional until we receive final settlement for such entry
through Federal Reserve Bank. If we do not receive such final settlement,
you are hereby notified and agree that we are entitled to a refund of the
amount credited to you in connection with such entry, and the party making
payment to you via such entry (i.e. the originator of the entry) shall not
be deemed to have paid you in the amount of such entry.
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Notice of Receipt of Entry:
Under the operating rules of the National Automated Clearing House Association,
which are applicable to ACH transactions involving your account, we are
not required to give next day notice to you of receipt of an ACH item and
we will not do so. However, we will continue to notify you of the receipt
of payment in the periodic statement we provide to you.
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Choice of Law:
We may accept on your behalf payments to your account which have been transmitted
through one or more Automated Clearing Houses ("ACH") and which
are not subject to the Electronic Fund Transfer Act and your rights and
obligations with respect to such payments shall be construed in accordance
with and governed by the laws of the state of New York, unless it has otherwise
specified in a separate agreement that the law of some other state shall
govern. |
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