Oklahoma § 21-1627 - False or bogus order directing payment of money

§ 21-1627. False or bogus order directing payment of money

Every person who, with intent to cheat or defraud, shall obtain

or attempt to obtain from any person any labor or personal services,

or the postponement of actual payment due for labor or personal

services theretofore performed, by means or use of any false or

bogus written, printed or engraved order directing the payment of

money, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof

shall be punished by a fine not to exceed Five Hundred Dollars

($500.00), or by imprisonment in the county jail for not more than

six (6) months, or by both such fine and imprisonment.

The term "false or bogus written, printed or engraved order

directing the payment of money," in addition to its common meaning,

also shall include any check, draft or order on any bank or trust

company which is not honored on presentation on account of

insufficient funds to the credit of the maker or drawer thereof with

which to pay same. The word "credit," as used herein, shall mean

any arrangement or understanding with a bank or trust company for

the payment by it of any check, draft or money payment order.

As against the maker or drawer of any false or bogus written,

printed or engraved order directing the payment of money, and as

against any officer or employee of the maker or drawer thereof, who

shall authorize or direct the making, drawing, uttering or

delivering, or who shall make, draw, utter or deliver any such false

or bogus written, printed or engraved order directing the payment of

money, to obtain or to attempt to obtain from any person any labor

or personal services, or the postponement of actual payment due for

labor or personal services, the fact of dishonor or refusal to pay

the amount of money specified in said false or bogus order shall be

prima facie evidence of intent to cheat or defraud, and of knowledge

of insufficient funds to the credit of the maker or drawer, with the

drawer specified therein, to pay the same; provided, said fact shall

not constitute prima facie evidence as above set forth if the maker

or drawer shall pay the amount of such false or bogus order,

together with protest fees, within five (5) days from the date the

same shall have been presented to the drawer for payment; and

provided further, that said fact shall not constitute prima facie

Oklahoma Statutes - Title 21. Crimes and Punishments

evidence as above set forth unless the said false or bogus order be

presented to the drawer within thirty (30) days after the same shall

have been uttered or delivered.

Laws 1955, p. 192, § 1.