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UNDER MISSOURI LAW, WRITING A BAD CHECK IS NOT A CRIME UNTIL THE PERSON WHO WROTE
THE CHECK RECEIVES NOTICE AND THE CHECK IS NOT PAID WITHIN TEN (10) DAYS AFTER
RECEIPT OF THIS NOTICE.
In order for you to submit a check for prosecution for violation of criminal law and in order for our
office to assist you in that prosecution, the following must be true:
† The check was written or passed in Nodaway County (not received by mail);
† It is not a third party check;
† It has a face value of at least $10.00;
† It is a personalized (imprinted) check;
† You have the person’s date of birth and either the person’s social security number or driver’s
license number and the state in which the license was issued;
† Notice of the bad check was sent to the person who wrote the check;
† Ten (10) days have passed since the notice was signed for by the individual who wrote the check;
† The check has not been paid;
† It is not a post-dated check (dated after the date the check was delivered);
† It is not a check you were asked to “hold” until it was “good”.
Under Missouri law, we can not prosecute:
* postdated checks;
* checks that you agreed to hold;
* third-party checks;
* payroll checks;
* offenders who cannot be sufficiently identified in a court of law;
* checks stamped “refer to maker” or “uncollected funds”; or
* any check you take after being told when you accepted the check that is was not “good,” but would be “good” later.
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