2009 North Carolina Code
Chapter 53 - Banks.
§ 53-131. False certification of a check.
§ 53‑131. False certification of a check.
Whoever, being an officer, employee, agent, or director of a bank, certifies a check drawn on such bank, and willfully fails to forthwith charge the amount thereof against the account of the drawer thereof, or willfully certifies a check drawn on such bank unless the drawer of such check has on deposit with the bank an amount of money subject to the payment of such check and equivalent to the amount therein specified, shall be guilty of a Class I felony which may include a fine not more than five thousand dollars ($5,000). (1921, c. 4, s. 84; C.S., s. 224(f); 1993, c. 539, s. 1268; 1994, Ex. Sess., c. 24, s. 14(c).)
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