Collection Assistance
We strongly encourage individuals and businesses to transition to solely accepting electronic payments. However, we currently assist individuals and businesses in recovering funds from checks that were not honored by banking institutions due to closed accounts or insufficient funds.
Individuals may mail or hand-deliver the cold check to our office. A written explanation of the check, and the name and address of the contact person MUST accompany the cold check for our office to proceed. The check must also bear the bank’s stamp identifying the reason it was not honored.
The office will notify the check writer by regular mail that the individual has 10 days to make withing which to make the check good.
If the check writer fails to make full payment, our office will call or mail the merchant to sign a criminal complaint for Theft by Deception. Once the criminal complaint is signed, the defendant will receive a summons to appear in Court.