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ORDINANCE NO. / 9 70
AN ORDINANCE of the City of Port Angeles
prohibiting the issuance of checks or
drafts against accounts containing
insufficient funds.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
PORT ANGELES as follows:
Section 1. Any person who shall with intent to defraud,
make, or draw, or utter, or deliver to another person any check,
or draft, on a bank or other depository for the payment of money,
knowing at the time of such drawing, or delivery, that he has not
sufficient funds in, or credit with said bank or other depository,
to meet said check or draft, in full upon its presentation, shall
be guilty of unlawful issuance of bank check, a misdemeanor. The
word "credit" as used herein shall be construed to mean an arrange-
ment or understanding with the bank or other depository for the
payment of such check or draft, and the uttering or delivering of
such a check or draft to another person without such fund or credit
to meet the same shall be prima facie evidence of an intent to
defraud.
Section 2. Ordinance No. 1734 is hereby repealed.
PASSED by the City Council of the City of Port Angeles
at a meeting of the Council held on the /f day
of L�
ATTEST: `
, 1978.
Marian C. Parrish, City Clerk
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
C. T. Walrath, City Attorney
PUBLISHED: 9/-ale, cP2- , / 97,8