Sec. 190.00 Issuing a bad check; definitions of terms.
The following definitions are applicable to this article:
1. "Check" means any check, draft or similar sight order for
the payment of money which is not post-dated with respect to the
time of utterance.
2. "Drawer" of a check means a person whose name appears
thereon as the primary obligor, whether the actual signature be
that of himself or of a person purportedly authorized to draw the
check in his behalf.
3. "Representative drawer" means a person who signs a check
as drawer in a representative capacity or as agent of the person
whose name appears thereon as the principal drawer or obligor.
4. "Utter." A person "utters" a check when, as a drawer or
representative drawer thereof, he delivers it or causes it to be
delivered to a person who thereby acquires a right against the
drawer with respect to such check. One who draws a check with
intent that it be so delivered is deemed to have uttered it if
the delivery occurs.
5. "Pass." A person "passes" a check when, being a payee,
holder or bearer of a check which previously has been or purports
to have been drawn and uttered by another, he delivers it, for a
purpose other than collection, to a third person who thereby
acquires a right with respect thereto.
6. "Funds" means money or credit.
7. "Insufficient funds." A drawer has "insufficient funds"
with a drawee to cover a check when he has no funds or account
whatever, or funds in an amount less than that of the check; and
a check dishonored for "no account" shall also be deemed to have
been dishonored for "insufficient funds."
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(For verification consult Official Text at Senate Gopher site.)