[HISTORY: Adopted by the Mayor and Council
of the Borough of North Haledon 2-19-1992 by Ord. No. 3-1992 (Ch.
23 of the 1990 Code). Amendments noted where applicable.]
This chapter may be known as the "Returned Check
Ordinance."
[Amended 7-16-2008 by Ord. No. 5-2008]
Whenever a check payable to any account of the
Borough of North Haledon is returned for insufficient funds, a service
charge, in an amount equal to the municipality's bank's current charge
for checks returned for insufficient funds per transaction, shall
be added to the account. The service charge shall be paid and credited
before any other payment on the account is accepted and credited.
Unpaid service charges shall become delinquent
and, when applicable, a lien against property, to be enforced in the
same manner as other liens.
Any person whose returned checks become chronic,
as determined by the Chief Financial Officer, may thereafter be required
to pay in cash or by certified check or cashier's check.
