Chap. 115.—An ACT to prohibit the false certification of a check and to require
the amount of any check certified to be forthwith charged against the account
of the drawer, and providing a penalty for the violation thereof. {S B 195]

Approved March 7, 1924.

1. Beit enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That whoever,
being an officer, employee, agent or director of a bank, certifies a check
drawn on such bank and wilfully fails forthwith to charge the amount
thereof against the account of the drawer thereof, or wilfully certifies a
check drawn on such bank when the drawer of such check has not on
deposit with the bank the amount of money subject to the payment of
such check and equivalent to the amount therein specified, shall be
guilty of a misdemeanor.