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  9. 4858
Puerto Rico Legal Code
Any person who, with the intent to defraud, orders any bank or depository to cancel an account designated for the making of payments with money charged against such account knowing that prior to said cancellation he/she had written, issued, endorsed or delivered any checks, money orders, drafts or notes to be charged against said cancelled account; or who draws against a closed or non-existent account; or stops the payment of the instrument after its issue without justified cause shall incur a misdemeanor.\nIf the amount represented by the instrument is more than five hundred dollars ($500), the offender shall incur a fourth degree felony.\nThe court may also impose restitution.\nHistory —June 18, 2004, No. 149, § 230, eff. May 1, 2005.

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