                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

ISSUING BAD CHECKS, ETC., LARCENY (§ 18.2-181)

Any person who, with intent to defraud, shall make or draw or utter or deliver
any check, draft, or order for the payment of money, upon any bank, banking
institution, trust company, or other depository, knowing, at the time of such
making, drawing, uttering or delivering, that the maker or drawer has not
sufficient funds in, or credit with, such bank, banking institution, trust
company, or other depository, for the payment of such check, draft or order,
although no express representation is made in reference thereto, shall be guilty
of larceny; and, if this check, draft, or order has a represented value of
$1,000 or more, such person shall be guilty of a Class 6 felony. In cases in
which such value is less than $1,000, the person shall be guilty of a Class 1
misdemeanor.
		The word &#8220;credit&#8221; as used herein, shall be construed to mean any
arrangement or understanding with the bank, trust company, or other depository
for the payment of such check, draft or order.
		Any person making, drawing, uttering or delivering any such check, draft or
order in payment as a present consideration for goods or services for the
purposes set out in this section shall be guilty as provided herein.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 6.1-115; 1966, c. 584; 1975, cc. 14, 15; 1978, c. 791;
1981, c. 230; 2018, cc. 764, 765; 2020, cc. 89, 401.