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Introduced Version House Bill 3186 History

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H. B. 3186


(By Delegate Angotti)
[Introduced March 30, 2001; referred to the
Committee on Banking and Insurance then the Judiciary.]




A BILL to amend and reenact article four, chapter thirty-one-a of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, by adding thereto a new section, designated section thirty-b, relating to prohibiting bank charges to recipients of worthless checks.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That article four, chapter thirty-one-a of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, be amended and reenacted by adding thereto a new section, designated section thirty-b, to read as follows:
ARTICLE 4. BANKING INSTITUTIONS AND SERVICES GENERALLY.
§31A-4-30b. Prohibition on fees banks may charge recipient of returned or overdraft checks.
A banking institution may not charge a fee to the recipient of check that was presented to the bank for payment or deposited into an account of the bank, and later returned as an overdraft or worthless check.


NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to prohibit bank charges to recipients of worthless checks.


This section is new; therefore, strike-throughs and underscoring have been omitted.
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