Notice of Dishonored Check - Criminal - Keywords: bad check, bounced check
Note: This summary is not intended to be an
all-inclusive summary of the law of bad checks, but does contain basic
and other provisions.
CRIMINAL PROVISIONS
District of Columbia Code
PART IV. CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE AND PRISONERS.
TITLE 22. CRIMINAL OFFENSES.
CHAPTER 14. FORGERY; FRAUDS
DC Code 22-1510 Making, drawing, or uttering check, draft, or order with intent to defraud; proof of intent; credit defined. (District of Columbia Code (2014 Edition))
22-1510 Making, drawing, or uttering check, draft, or order with intent to defraud; proof of intent; credit defined.
Any person within the District of Columbia who, with intent to defraud, shall make, draw, utter, or deliver any check, draft, order, or other instrument for the payment of money upon any bank or other depository, knowing at the time of such making, drawing, uttering, or delivering that the maker or drawer has not sufficient funds in or credit with such bank or other depository for the payment of such check, draft, order, or other instrument in full upon its presentation, shall, if the amount of such check, draft, order, or other instrument is $1,000 or more, be guilty of a felony and fined not more than the amount set forth in 22-3571.01 or imprisoned for not less than 1 year nor more than 3 years, or both; or if the amount of such check, draft, order, or other instrument has some value, be guilty of a misdemeanor and fined not more than the amount set forth in 22-3571.01 or imprisoned not more than 180 days, or both. As against the maker or drawer thereof the making, drawing, uttering, or delivering by such maker or drawer of a check, draft, order, or other instrument, payment of which is refused by the drawee because of insufficient funds of the maker or drawer in its possession or control, shall be prima facie evidence of the intent to defraud and of knowledge of insufficient funds in or credit with such bank or other depository, provided such maker or drawer shall not have paid the holder thereof the amount due thereon, together with the amount of protest fees, if any, within 5 days after receiving notice in person, or writing, that such check, draft, order, or other instrument has not been paid. The word credit, as used herein, shall be construed to mean arrangement or understanding, express or implied, with the bank or other depository for the payment of such check, draft, order, or other instrument.
History
(July 1, 1922, 42 Stat. 820, ch. 273; Oct. 22, 1970, 84 Stat. 1094, Pub. L. 91-497, 3; Aug. 20, 1994, D.C. Law 10-151, 108, 41 DCR 2608; June 11, 2013, D.C. Law 19-317, 221, 60 DCR 2064; June 19, 2013, D.C. Law 19-320, 104, 60 DCR 3390.)