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§ 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."