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CHECKS DRAWN BY PERSON WITHOUT SUFFICIENT FUNDS OR CREDIT.
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<br />BE IT ORDAINED, by the Council of the City of Charlottesville, as follows
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<br />Any person who, with intent to defraud, shall make or draw or utter or de-
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<br />liver an-- check, draft, or order for the payment of money, upon any bank, banking
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<br />institution, trust company, or other depository, knowing, at the time of such mak-
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<br />ing, drawing, uttering, Qr delivering, that the maker or drawer has not sufficient
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<br />funds in, or credit with such bank, banking institution, trust company , or other
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<br />depository for the payment of such check, although no express representation is
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<br />made in reference thereto, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
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<br />Any person convicted under the previsions of paragraph one of this section
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<br />shall if the amount of such: check, draft, or order is under fifty dollars by sen-
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<br />tenced to pay a fine of not more than one hundred dollars, or to undergo imprison-
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<br />ment not exceeding thirty days, or both. If the amount of such check, draft, or
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<br />r order is fifty dollars or more, he shall be sentenced to pay a fine of not more
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<br />than one hundred dollars, or to undergo impisonment not to exceed one year, or
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<br />both.
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<br />In any prosecution under this section, the making or drawing, or uttering. or
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<br />delivery of a check, draft, or order, payment of which is refused by the drawee be-
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<br />eauce of lack of funds or credit, shall be prima facie evidence of intent to defraud
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<br />and of knowledge of sufficient funds in, or credit with such bank, banking instiu-
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<br />tion, trust company or other depository, unless such maker or drawer shall have
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<br />paid the drawee thereof the amount due thereon., together with interest and protect
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<br />fees, within five days after receiving notice that such check, draft, or order has
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<br />not been paid to the drawee.
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<br />The word credit, as used herein, shall be construed to mean any arrangement
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<br />or understanding with the bank, banking institution, trust company, or other deposi-
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<br />tor, for the payment of such check, draft, or order.
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<br />In any civil action growing out of an arrest under this rection, nu evidence
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<br />of statements or representations as to the status of the check, draft, order or de-
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<br />posit involved, or if an; collateral agreemerit with reference to the check, draft
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<br />or order, shall be admissible unless such statements, or representations, or col-
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<br />lateral agreement, be written upon the instrument.
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<br />Adopted by Council march 21, 1927.
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<br />Ayes: Brown and Joachim; Noes: None.
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<br />Clerk Signature.
<br />President Signature
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<br />GENERAI REPUTATION OF DEFENDANT AS VIOLATOR OF PROHIBITION
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<br />ORDINANCE ADMISSABLE.
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<br />Be it ordained by the Council of the City of Charlottesville that the pro-
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<br />hibition ordinance enacted April 14, 1921, be amended bi the addition of the follow-
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<br />ing new section:
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<br />Section 34 1/2. It shall be competent in a prosecution fur any offense againat
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<br />the prohibition ordinance to prove the general reputation of the defendant as a vio-
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<br />lator of the prohibition ordinance or of the prohibition laws.
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<br />Adopted by the Council March 21, 1927.
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<br />Ayes: Brown and Joachim; Noes: None.
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<br />Clerk Signature
<br />President Signature
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