Ohio Code § 1304.34

§ 1304.34.

(A) A payor or collecting bank's authority to accept, pay, or collect an item or to account

for proceeds of its collection if otherwise effective is not rendered ineffective

by incompetence of a customer of either bank existing at the time the item is issued

or its collection is undertaken if the bank does not know of an adjudication of incompetence.  Neither death nor incompetence of a customer revokes the authority to accept, pay,

collect, or account until the bank knows of the fact of death or of an adjudication

of incompetence and has reasonable opportunity to act on it. (B) Even with knowledge, a bank may for ten days after the date of death pay or certify

checks drawn on or before that date unless ordered to stop payment by a person claiming

an interest in the account.