Funds Availability Disclosure

This policy statement applies to all deposit accounts.

Our policy is to delay the availability of funds that you deposit in your account. During the delay, you may not withdraw the funds in cash and we will not 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Please remember that even after we have made funds available to you, and you have withdrawn the funds, you are still responsible for checks you deposit that are returned to us unpaid and for any other problems involving your deposit.

Determining the Availability of a Deposit
The length of the delay is counted in business days from the day of your deposit. Every day is a business day except Saturdays, Sundays, and federal holidays. If you make a deposit before 2:00 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 after 2:00 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. Please note that some locations where deposits are taken have different cutoff times and that the earliest cutoff time would be 2:00PM and the latest cutoff time would be 5:00PM. The length of the delay varies depending on the type of deposit and is explained below.

If you make a deposit at an ATM before 12:00 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 12:00 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.

Same Day Availability
Funds from electronic direct deposits to your account will be available on the day we receive the deposit.

Next-Day Availability
Funds from the following deposits are available on the first business day after the day of your deposit:

• U.S. Treasury checks that are payable to you.
• Wire Transfers.
• Checks drawn on Commerce Bank and Trust Company.

If you make the deposit in person to one of our employees, funds from the following deposits are also available on the first business day after the day of your deposit:

• Cash.
• State and local government checks that are payable to you if you use a special deposit slip available from our tellers.
• Cashier's, certified, and teller's checks that are payable to you if you use a special deposit slip available from our tellers.
• Federal Reserve Bank checks, Federal Home Loan Bank checks, and U.S. postal money orders, if these items are payable to you.

If you do not make your deposit in person to one of our employees (for example, if you mail the deposit), funds from these deposits will be available on the second business day after the day of your deposit.

Other Check Deposits
The delay for other check deposits depends on whether the check is a local or a nonlocal check. To see whether a check is a local or a nonlocal check, look at the routing number on the check:

Business Check

Personal Check

If the check is payable by an institution located in Massachusetts, or if the first four digits of the routing number (1234 in the examples) are 0110, 0111, 0112, 0113, 0114, 0115, 0116, 0117, 0118, 0119, 0211, 2110, 2111, 2112, 2113, 2114, 2115, 2116, 2117, 2118, 2119, or 2211 then the check is a local check. Otherwise, the check is a nonlocal check. Some checks are marked "payable through" and have a four- or nine-digit number nearby. For these checks, use the four-digit number (or the first four digit of the nine-digit number), not the routing number on the bottom of the check, to determine if these checks are local or nonlocal. Our policy is to make funds available from local and nonlocal checks as follows:

1. Local Checks. The funds from a deposit of local checks will be available on the first business day after the day of your deposit.
2. Nonlocal Checks. The first $100 from a deposit of nonlocal checks will be available on the first business day after the day of your deposit. The remaining funds will be available on the second business day after the day of your deposit.

For example, if you deposit a $700 nonlocal check on Monday, $100 of the deposit is available on Tuesday. The remaining $600 is available Wednesday. If you deposit both categories of checks, $100 from the checks will be available on the first business day after the day of your deposit, not $100 from each category of check.

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 according to the preceding 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. However, the first $100 of your deposit will be available on the first business day after the day of deposit.

If we are not going to make all of the funds from your deposit available according to the preceding 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.

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 communications or computer 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 into 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, federal, state, local government checks, Federal Reserve Bank checks, Federal Home Loan Bank checks, and U.S. Postal Money Orders 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 by the eleventh business day after the day of your deposit.

REV: 02/06