A. In any case where a municipal court clerk or district court clerk accepts any personal check or other form of a negotiable instrument from the arrestee or from any person acting for or on his behalf in payment of a fine or as bail for his appearance for arraignment, trial or a hearing, and said check or instrument proves to be on a closed account or is insufficient, false, bogus, a forgery, or otherwise dishonored for any reason, the court clerk shall not be civilly liable personally, or upon his official bond for the amount of such instrument or for the amount of the fine imposed in the case, or criminally liable therefor.
B. A personal check or other instrument tendered to a municipal court clerk or district court clerk for bail or for the payment of fine and costs, if dishonored and returned to said clerk for any reason other than the lack of proper endorsement, shall constitute nonpayment of bail or fine, as the case may be, and the court, in addition to any civil or criminal remedy otherwise provided for by law, may issue a bench warrant for the arrest of the person named on the citation to require his appearance on the charge specified.
Added by Laws 1986, c. 250, § 5, operative July 1, 1987.
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