{"data":{"id":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-21-21-1627","jurisdiction":"us-ok","citation":"Okla. Stat. tit. 21, § 21-1627","heading":"False or bogus order directing payment of money","body":"Every person who, with intent to cheat or defraud, shall obtain\n\nor attempt to obtain from any person any labor or personal services,\n\nor the postponement of actual payment due for labor or personal\n\nservices theretofore performed, by means or use of any false or\n\nbogus written, printed or engraved order directing the payment of\n\nmoney, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof\n\nshall be punished by a fine not to exceed Five Hundred Dollars\n\n($500.00), or by imprisonment in the county jail for not more than\n\nsix (6) months, or by both such fine and imprisonment.\n\nThe term \"false or bogus written, printed or engraved order\n\ndirecting the payment of money,\" in addition to its common meaning,\n\nalso shall include any check, draft or order on any bank or trust\n\ncompany which is not honored on presentation on account of\n\ninsufficient funds to the credit of the maker or drawer thereof with\n\nwhich to pay same. The word \"credit,\" as used herein, shall mean\n\nany arrangement or understanding with a bank or trust company for\n\nthe payment by it of any check, draft or money payment order.\n\nAs against the maker or drawer of any false or bogus written,\n\nprinted or engraved order directing the payment of money, and as\n\nagainst any officer or employee of the maker or drawer thereof, who\n\nshall authorize or direct the making, drawing, uttering or\n\ndelivering, or who shall make, draw, utter or deliver any such false\n\nor bogus written, printed or engraved order directing the payment of\n\nmoney, to obtain or to attempt to obtain from any person any labor\n\nor personal services, or the postponement of actual payment due for\n\nlabor or personal services, the fact of dishonor or refusal to pay\n\nthe amount of money specified in said false or bogus order shall be\n\nprima facie evidence of intent to cheat or defraud, and of knowledge\n\nof insufficient funds to the credit of the maker or drawer, with the\n\ndrawer specified therein, to pay the same; provided, said fact shall\n\nnot constitute prima facie evidence as above set forth if the maker\n\nor drawer shall pay the amount of such false or bogus order,\n\ntogether with protest fees, within five (5) days from the date the\n\nsame shall have been presented to the drawer for payment; and\n\nprovided further, that said fact shall not constitute prima facie\n\nevidence as above set forth unless the said false or bogus order be\n\npresented to the drawer within thirty (30) days after the same shall\n\nhave been uttered or delivered.","path":["OK Code","Title 21"],"source_url":"https://www.oklegislature.gov/OK_Statutes/CompleteTitles/os21.pdf","current_through":"2026-08-14","vintage":"open-us-law v2026.08, retrieved 2026-09-14","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T18:32:36Z","sha256":"dbe2cd09a64520aa9c58fd265737166e089027dffef42c0751cae691b2af5df5","source_id":"us-ok","stale":false,"prev":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-21-21-1626","next":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-21-21-1627.1"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}