Boonville Bad checks ordinance (§ 14-52)
Chapter 14: Offenses: Miscellaneous · Article III. Offenses Against Property
In short: Writing or passing a check you know lacks enough funds to cover it, with intent to defraud, is an offense.
Our plain-English summary, not the official text or legal advice. The ordinance below is what counts.
Any person who, to procure any article or thing of value or for the payment of any past-due debt or other obligation of whatsoever form or nature or who, for any other purpose, shall make or draw or utter or deliver, with intent to defraud, any check, draft or order, for the payment of money, upon any bank or other depositary, knowing at the time of such making, drawing, uttering or delivering, that the maker or drawer has not sufficient funds in or credit with such bank or other depositary for the payment of such check, draft or order, in full, upon its presentation, shall be guilty of an offense.
Official source: City of Boonville official Code of Ordinances (online): look up Sec. 14-52
Text from Supplement 8 (December 2025), through Ordinance 4678 of December 16, 2024.
Last checked October 30, 2026. The city's official copy controls; this page is a reading copy, not legal advice.