N.Y. Penal Law Section 190.10
Issuing a bad check

  • presumptions

1.

When the drawer of a check has insufficient funds with the drawee to cover it at the time of utterance, the subscribing drawer or representative drawer, as the case may be, is presumed to know of such insufficiency.

2.

A subscribing drawer or representative drawer, as the case may be, of an ultimately dishonored check is presumed to have intended or believed that the check would be dishonored upon presentation when:

(a)

The drawer had no account with the drawee at the time of utterance; or

(b)

(i) The drawer had insufficient funds with the drawee at the time of utterance, and

(ii)

the check was presented to the drawee for payment not more than thirty days after the date of utterance, and

(iii)

the drawer had insufficient funds with the drawee at the time of presentation.

3.

Dishonor of a check by the drawee and insufficiency of the drawer’s funds at the time of presentation may properly be proved by introduction in evidence of a notice of protest of the check, or of a certificate under oath of an authorized representative of the drawee declaring the dishonor and insufficiency, and such proof shall constitute presumptive evidence of such dishonor and insufficiency.

Source: Section 190.10 — Issuing a bad check; presumptions, https://www.­nysenate.­gov/legislation/laws/PEN/190.­10 (updated Sep. 22, 2014; accessed Apr. 13, 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:
Apr. 13, 2024

Last modified:
Sep. 22, 2014

§ 190.10’s source at nysenate​.gov

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