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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>63053</law_id><section_number>18.2-184</section_number><catch_line>Presumption as to notation attached to check, draft or order</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="18.2">Crimes and Offenses Generally</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="6">Crimes Involving Fraud</unit><unit label="article" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="4">Bad Check Law</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>In any <span class="dictionary">prosecution</span> or action under the preceding sections, any notation attached to or stamped upon a check, draft or <span class="dictionary">order</span> which is refused by the drawee because of lack of funds or credit, bearing the terms &#x201C;not sufficient funds,&#x201D; &#x201C;uncollected funds,&#x201D; &#x201C;account closed,&#x201D; or &#x201C;no account in this name,&#x201D; or words of similar import, shall be prima facie <span class="dictionary">evidence</span> that such notation is true and correct.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 6.1-117.1; 1970, c. 695; 1974, c. 322; 1975, cc. 14, 15.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
