HomeMy WebLinkAbout3720 ORDINANCE NO. ~ ~.9_0
AN ORDINANCE amending Ordinance No. 3529, ~%C~%
Section 2, Article 4(d) bY adding a new
section describing the crime of Unlawful
Issuance of Bank Checks and by establish-
ing a penalty.
THE CITY OF BREMERTON DOES HEREBY ORDAIN:
SECTION 1: STOP PAYMENT ORDER.
Any person who shall, with intent to defraud, make or draw
or utter or deliver to another person any check or draft for the
payment of money in an amount of Two hundred fifty and no/100
Dollars ($250.00) or less, on a bank or other depository for
payment of money, and who issues a stop payment order directing
the bank or depository on which the check is drawn not to honor
said check, and who fails to make payment of money in the amount
of the check or draft or otherwise arrange a settlement agreed
upon by the holder of the check within twenty (20) days of
issuing said check or draft, shall be guilty of Unlawful Issuance
of Bank Check.
SECTION 2: PENALTY.
Unlawful Issuance of Bank Check in the amount of Two hundred
fifty and no/100 Dollars ($250.00) or less, is a misdemeanor and
shall be punished as follows:
A. The Court shall order the defendant to make full restitu-
tion.
B. There shall be a mandatory fine of Five hundred and
no/100 Dollars ($500.00) imposed on a first offense, of which
fine Fifty and no/100 Dollars ($50.00) shall not be suspended or
deferred. Upon each subsequent offense, a minimum mandatory fine
of Five hundred and no/100 Dollars ($500.00) shall be imposed,
and no part of such fine shall be suspended or deferred.
APPROVED by the City Commissioners on the first reading this
0?0 day of July, 1982.
P~S~ by the City Council of the City of Bremerton, signed
by the Mayor and attested by the City Clerk in authentication of
such passage this ~?~ day of July, 1982.
GENE NELSON -' !
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ATTEST:
KATHLEEN L. MANDIO
City Clerk
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