A. Any person who issues or passes a check for the payment of money, for the purpose of obtaining from any person, firm, partnership, or corporation, any money, property, or other thing of value or paying for any services, wages, salary, labor or rent, knowing it will not be paid by the drawee and payment is refused by the drawee, is guilty of issuing a bad check.

B. For purposes of this section, a person who issues a check for which payment is refused by the drawee is presumed to know the check would not be paid if he had no account with the drawee at the time of issue.

C. An offense of issuing a bad check shall be punished as a class B misdemeanor. (Code 1975 § 13-650-5)