Maryland · Maryland Code — Criminal Law Article
Md. Code, Crim. Law § 7-107: (a) A person who obtains property or a service by a bad check under the circumstances described in Title 8, Subtitle 1 of this article may not be prosecuted for theft under this part unless that person: (1) makes a false representation that there are sufficient funds in the drawee bank to cover the
What this law says, in plain English
A person cannot be prosecuted for theft by bad check unless they falsely represented sufficient funds existed and committed deception as defined by statute.
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