Where any person attempts to pay the County for taxes, or for any other sum due to the County, by means of uttering, publishing or passing a check, physical or electronic, draft, or order for payment of money including, but not limited to credit cards, debit cards and electronic funds transfers, which is subsequently returned for insufficient funds, because such person has no account or the account has been closed, or because such check, draft, or order for payment was returned due to a stop-payment order placed in bad faith by the drawer on the check, draft, credit or debit card transactions, electronic funds transfers, or other order for payment, such person shall be subject to a fee of forty-dollars ($40). Such fee shall be assessed by the Treasurer of the County and shall be in addition to any other amounts owed to the County and any other penalty provided by law.
The amendment to this ordinance shall be effective July 1, 2018.
(Ord. 99-17. Passed 12-1-99; Ord. 04-09. Passed 6-8-04; Ord. 18-11. Passed 5-9-18.)