Submission of Valid Transactions. (a) Merchant will submit to Bank a Transaction only if the Transaction is made or approved by the Cardholder who is issued the Card used for the Transaction. Merchant will not submit directly or indirectly: (i) any Transaction that Merchant knows or should have known to be fraudulent or not authorized by the Cardholder; (ii) any Transaction that results from a transaction outside of Merchant’s normal course of business, as described on the Merchant Application; or (iii) any Transaction containing the account of a Card issued to Merchant or any account numbers issued to Merchant’s business owners, family members, principals or employees for Transactions that do not represent a purchase of goods or services from Merchant or a credit transaction related to a purchase of goods or services from Merchant .
Submission of Valid Transactions. (a) Merchant will submit to Processor a Transaction only if the Transaction is made or approved by the Cardholder who is issued the Card used for the Transaction. The burden of verifying the identity of the Cardholder and the Cardholder’s authority to initiate a Transaction rests solely with Merchant. Merchant will not submit directly or indirectly: (i) any Transaction that Merchant knows or should have known to be fraudulent or not authorized by the Cardholder; (ii) any Transaction that results from a transaction outside of Merchant’s normal course of business, as described on the Merchant Application; or (iii) any Transaction containing the account of a Card issued to Merchant or any account numbers issued to Merchant’s business owners, family members, principals or employees for Transactions that do not represent a purchase of goods or services from Merchant or a credit transaction related to a purchase of goods or services from Merchant .
