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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>56516</law_id><section_number>8.01-226.10</section_number><catch_line>Civil immunity for causing the arrest of a person for a bad check</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>6.2-1816</reference></referred_to_by><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="8.01">Civil Remedies and Procedure</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="3">Actions</unit><unit label="article" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="21">Miscellaneous Provisions</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>If payment of any check, draft, or <span class="dictionary">order</span> for the payment of money is refused by the financial institution, trust company or other depository upon which such instrument is drawn, and the <span class="dictionary">person</span> who drew or uttered such instrument is arrested or prosecuted under the provisions of &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Issuing bad checks, etc., larceny" href="/18.2-181/">18.2-181</a> or &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Issuing bad checks on behalf of business firm or corporation in payment of wages; penalty" href="/18.2-182/">18.2-182</a>, for failure or refusal to pay such instrument, the one who arrested or caused such <span class="dictionary">person</span> to be arrested and prosecuted, or either, shall be conclusively deemed to have acted with reasonable or <span class="dictionary">probable cause</span> in any <span class="dictionary">suit</span> for <span class="dictionary">damages</span> that may be brought by the <span class="dictionary">person</span> who drew or uttered such instrument, if the one who arrested or caused such <span class="dictionary">person</span> to be arrested and prosecuted, or either, shall have, before doing so, presented or caused such instrument to be presented to the depository on which it was drawn where it was refused, and then waited five days after notice, as provided in &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Issuance of bad check prima facie evidence of intent and knowledge; notice by certified or registered mail" href="/18.2-183/">18.2-183</a>, without the amount due under the provisions of such instrument being paid.</p></section></text><history>2004, c. 462.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
