It is unlawful for any person, with intent to cheat and defraud, to obtain or attempt to obtain from any person any money, property, or valuable thing of the value of $500 or less by means of any false or bogus check or by any other written or printed or engraved instrument or spurious coin. The term
FALSE OR BOGUS CHECK shall include checks or orders given for money or property which are not honored on account of insufficient funds of the maker to pay same, as against the maker or drawer thereof, or because the check or order was drawn on a closed account or on a nonexistent account when such checks or orders are given in exchange for money or property, in exchange for any benefit or thing of value or as a down payment for the purchase of any item of which the purchaser is taking immediate possession, as against the maker or drawer thereof. The making, drawing, issuing, or delivering of a check, draft, or order, payment of which is refused by the drawee, shall be prima facie evidence of intent to defraud and the knowledge of insufficient funds in or credit with such bank or other depository. Such maker or drawer shall not have paid the drawee the amount due thereon, together with the protest fees, and the check or order shall be presented for payment within five days from the date the same is presented for payment; and provided further, that said check or order is presented for payment within 30 days after same is delivered and accepted.
(Prior Code, § 32-113)
Statutory reference:
Defined, see 21 O.S. § 1541.4
Obtaining property and the like valued less than $500 by bogus or false checks prohibited, see 21 O.S. § 1541.1