1. This Article applies
a. to a credit issued by a bank if the credit requires a documentary draft or a documentary demand for payment; and
b. to a credit issued by a person other than a bank if the credit requires that the draft or demand for payment be accompanied by a document of title; and
c. to a credit issued by a bank or other person if the credit is not within subparagraph "a" or "b" but conspicuously states that it is a letter of credit or is conspicuously so entitled.
2. Unless the engagement meets the requirements of subsection 1, this Article does not apply to engagements to make advances or to honor drafts or demands for payment, to authorities to pay or purchase, to guarantees or to general agreements.
3. This Article deals with some but not all of the rules and concepts of letters of credit as such rules or concepts have developed prior to this chapter or may hereafter develop. The fact that this Article states a rule does not by itself require, imply or negate application of the same or a converse rule to a situation not provided for or to a person not specified by this Article.
[C66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 554.5102]
Referred to in § 554.5103, 554.5104, 554.5117
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