28-611.01 Issuing a no-account check; penalty; aggregation allowed; when. - Nebraska Statutes

28-611.01. Issuing a no-account check; penalty;aggregation allowed; when.(1) Whoever issues or passes a check, draft, assignmentof funds, or similar signed order for the payment of money, knowing that heor she has no account with the drawee at the time the check, draft, assignmentof funds, or order is issued, commits the offense of issuing a no-accountcheck. Issuing a no-account check is:(a) A ClassIII felony if the amount of the check, draft, assignment of funds, or orderis one thousand five hundred dollars or more;(b) A Class IV felonyif the amount of the check, draft, assignment of funds, or order is five hundreddollars or more, but less than one thousand five hundred dollars;(c) A ClassI misdemeanor if the amount of the check, draft, assignment of funds, or orderis two hundred dollars or more, but less than five hundred dollars; and(d) A ClassII misdemeanor if the amount of the check, draft, assignment of funds, ororder is less than two hundred dollars.(2) The aggregate amount of any seriesof checks, drafts, assignments, or orders issued or passed within a sixty-dayperiod in one county may be used in determining the classification of theoffense pursuant to subsection (1) of this section, except that checks, drafts,assignments, or orders may not be aggregated into more than one offense.(3) For anysecond or subsequent offense under this section, any person so offending shallbe guilty of:(a) A Class III felony if the amount of the check, draft, assignmentof funds, or order is five hundred dollars or more; and(b) A ClassIV felony if the amount of the check, draft, assignment of funds, or orderis less than five hundred dollars. SourceLaws 2009, LB155, § 16.