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A bad check is a check that you cannot cash because the person who wrote the check: (1) doesn’t have enough money to cover it (“insufficient funds”), or (2) told the bank to “stop payment” on it without having a valid reason for doing so.
Penal Code 476a PC makes it a crime to write or pass a bad check (knowing that there are or will be insufficient funds in the account). The offense can be charged as a felony if the value of the bad checks is more than $950.00.
1 sty 2023 · (a)(1) Notwithstanding any penal sanctions that may apply, any person who passes a check on insufficient funds shall be liable to the payee for the amount of the check and a service charge payable to the payee for an amount not to exceed twenty-five dollars ($25) for the first check passed on insufficient funds and an amount not to exceed ...
1 sty 2023 · (a) Any person who, for himself or herself, as the agent or representative of another, or as an officer of a corporation, willfully, with intent to defraud, makes or draws or utters or delivers a check, draft, or order upon a bank or depositary, a person, a firm, or a corporation, for the payment of money, knowing at the time of that making ...
Section 1719 provides that any person who passes a check that is returned for non-sufficient funds (“NSF”) or because the maker has no account or stops payment on a check without proper justification, and who fails to pay the amount of the check plus service charges and mailing costs, in cash, to the payee within thirty (30) days following ...
Read Section 476a - Making or drawing or uttering or delivering check, draft, or order knowing funds are not sufficient, Cal. Pen. Code § 476a, see flags on bad law, and search Casetext’s comprehensive legal database.
§6.01 Bad Checks—Insufficient Funds The payee of a check that is issued on insufficient funds (including no account) has a cause of action for the amount of the check plus a $25 service charge for the first bad check and $35 for each subsequent bad check to that payee.
