N.Y. Penal Law Section 190.05
Issuing a bad check

A person is guilty of issuing a bad check when:

1.

(a) As a drawer or representative drawer, he utters a check knowing that he or his principal, as the case may be, does not then have sufficient funds with the drawee to cover it, and

(b)

he intends or believes at the time of utterance that payment will be refused by the drawee upon presentation, and

(c)

payment is refused by the drawee upon presentation; or

2.

(a) He passes a check knowing that the drawer thereof does not then have sufficient funds with the drawee to cover it, and

(b)

he intends or believes at the time the check is passed that payment will be refused by the drawee upon presentation, and

(c)

payment is refused by the drawee upon presentation. Issuing a bad check is a class B misdemeanor.

Source: Section 190.05 — Issuing a bad check, https://www.­nysenate.­gov/legislation/laws/PEN/190.­05 (updated Sep. 22, 2014; accessed Oct. 26, 2024).

190.00
Issuing a bad check 190.05
Issuing a bad check 190.10
Issuing a bad check 190.15
Issuing a bad check 190.20
False advertising 190.23
False personation 190.25
Criminal impersonation in the second degree 190.26
Criminal impersonation in the first degree 190.27
Criminal sale of a police uniform 190.30
Unlawfully concealing a will 190.35
Misconduct by corporate official 190.40
Criminal usury in the second degree 190.42
Criminal usury in the first degree 190.45
Possession of usurious loan records 190.50
Unlawful collection practices 190.55
Making a false statement of credit terms 190.60
Scheme to defraud in the second degree 190.65
Scheme to defraud in the first degree 190.70
Scheme to defraud the state by unlawfully selling prescriptions 190.72
Unauthorized radio transmission 190.75
Criminal use of an access device in the second degree 190.76
Criminal use of an access device in the first degree 190.77
Offenses involving theft of identity 190.78
Identity theft in the third degree 190.79
Identity theft in the second degree 190.80
Identity theft in the first degree 190.80‑A
Aggravated identity theft 190.81
Unlawful possession of personal identification information in the third degree 190.82
Unlawful possession of personal identification information in the second degree 190.83
Unlawful possession of personal identification information in the first degree 190.84
Defenses 190.85
Unlawful possession of a skimmer device in the second degree 190.86
Unlawful possession of a skimmer device in the first degree 190.87
Immigrant assistant services fraud in the second degree 190.89
Immigrant assistance services fraud in the first degree
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Accessed:
Oct. 26, 2024

Last modified:
Sep. 22, 2014

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