                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

CIVIL IMMUNITY FOR CAUSING THE ARREST OF A PERSON FOR A BAD CHECK (§
8.01-226.10)

If payment of any check, draft, or order for the payment of money is refused by
the financial institution, trust company or other depository upon which such
instrument is drawn, and the person who drew or uttered such instrument is
arrested or prosecuted under the provisions of § 18.2-181 or § 18.2-182, for
failure or refusal to pay such instrument, the one who arrested or caused such
person to be arrested and prosecuted, or either, shall be conclusively deemed to
have acted with reasonable or probable cause in any suit for damages that may be
brought by the person who drew or uttered such instrument, if the one who
arrested or caused such person 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 § 18.2-183, without the amount due under the
provisions of such instrument being paid.

HISTORY: 2004, c. 462.