[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Supervisors
of the County of Frederick 9-12-1984 as Ch. 2, Art. I, § 1-2, of the 1984 Frederick
County Code; amended in its entirety 9-8-2010. Subsequent amendments noted where applicable.]
Section 15.2-106 of the Code of Virginia, 1950,
as amended, provides that the governing body of Frederick County,
Virginia, is authorized to adopt an ordinance which places a fee on
those persons who pass bad checks onto the County.
There shall be a fee of $35 placed on any person
or business for the uttering, publishing or passing of any check or
draft for payment of taxes or any other sums due, which is subsequently
returned for insufficient funds or because there is no account or
the account has been closed or because such check, draft, or order
was returned because of a stop-payment order placed in bad faith on
the check, draft, or order by the drawer.
