Sec. 2-161. Bad checks given to city or its agents.
   It shall be unlawful for any person to make and deliver for draw and deliver or utter or give to the city, or to any officer, employee, agent, agency, board, bureau or commission thereof, in payment of any license, fee, fine, penalty, assessment, tax, debt, obligation or other exaction, payment, or amount of money which the city or such officer, employee, agent, agency, board, bureau or commission is lawfully authorized to receive or collect, any check or draft upon any bank or banking association with knowledge that the maker or drawer thereof does not have an account in or with such bank or banking association subject to such check or draft. The fact that payment of such check or draft, when presented in the usual course of business, shall be refused by such bank or banking association for lack of sufficient funds to the credit of the drawer or maker with which to pay the same, or because such drawer or maker has no account subject to such check or draft, shall be prima facie evidence that the same was made and delivered or drawn and delivered or uttered or given with the knowledge hereinabove mentioned. Bad check fee to be set by resolution may be assessed against returned checks as allowed by state law.
(Code 1982, § 22-208; Ord. No. 801, 5-20-96; Ord. No. 1102, 9-8-09)