VIRGINIA BAD CHECK -  VIRGINIA CODE 18.2-183

Issue a bad check in Virginia and you may go to jail.  A bad check charge in Virginia can be either a felony or a misdemeanor based on the amount of the check.  Once you receive a bad check notice in the mail, you must pay it within five (5) days.  If you don’t pay the bad check within the 5 days you can be charged with issuing a bad check in violation of Virginia State Code 18.2-183.

If you have been charged with writing a bad check in Virginia, contact the SRIS Law Group attorneys for help at 888-437-7747.

VA Code § 18.2-183. Issuance of bad check prima facie evidence of intent and knowledge; notice by certified or registered mail.

In any prosecution or action under the preceding sections, the making or drawing or uttering or delivery of a check, draft, or order, payment of which is refused by the drawee because of lack of funds or credit shall be prima facie evidence of intent to defraud or of knowledge of insufficient funds in, or credit with, such bank, banking institution, trust company or other depository unless such maker or drawer, or someone for him, shall have paid the holder thereof the amount due thereon, together with interest, and protest fees (if any), within five days after receiving written notice that such check, draft, or order has not been paid to the holder thereof. Notice mailed by certified or registered mail, evidenced by return receipt, to the last known address of the maker or drawer shall be deemed sufficient and equivalent to notice having been received by the maker or drawer.
If such check, draft or order shows on its face a printed or written address, home, office, or otherwise, of the maker or drawer, then the foregoing notice, when sent by certified or registered mail to such address, with or without return receipt requested, shall be deemed sufficient and equivalent to notice having been received by the maker or drawer, whether such notice shall be returned undelivered or not.
When a check is drawn on a bank in which the maker or drawer has no account, it shall be presumed that such check was issued with intent to defraud, and the five-day notice set forth above shall not be required in such case.

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