KRS 15.824: Penalty imposed upon payor for tender of dishonored check.

If any check tendered to the Office of the Attorney General is not paid when presented to

the drawee bank for payment, there shall be paid as a penalty by the payor who tende red

the check, or the payor for whom the check was tendered, upon notice and demand of the

office, an amount equal to ten percent (10%) of the check. The penalty under this section

shall not be less than ten dollars ($10) or more than twenty-five dollars ($25). If the payor

who tendered the check shows to the Office of the Attorney General's satisfaction that the

failure to honor payment of the check resulted from error by parties other than the payor,

the office shall waive the penalty.