When a payment is returned unpaid by the drawer bank, the person issuing the payment shall be notified in writing by Cashiering/Student Accounts. Full restitution for the unpaid payment and payment of the service charge assessed by the University must be received within ten business days. The acceptable methods of payment are cash, money order, or cashier's check. Failure to honor the returned payment may result in suspension of payment writing privileges and/or legal action.

If a payment which was issued either for payment of the minimum registration deposit or payment of a past due account to release a "stop enrollment" is returned unpaid by the drawer bank and full restitution is not made within ten (10) days, payment writing privileges shall be suspended, current semester tuition and fees shall become due in full, and the individual shall be recommended for immediate disenrollment.

Any student, faculty, staff member or non-university person who fails to make full restitution of the returned payment and payment of the service charge within thirty (30) days of the date the returned payment was received from the University's bank will be denied payment writing privileges within the University community for a period of not less than two (2) years. After the two year suspension period has elapsed, payment writing privileges will be granted only if full restitution of the returned payment and payment of the service charge has been received by the University.

When any student, faculty, staff member or non-university person issues three (3) payments within a six (6) month period which are subsequently returned unpaid by his or her bank, payment writing privileges within the University community will be suspended for a period not less than two (2) years from the date the third returned payment was received by the University's bank. After the two year suspension period has elapsed, payment writing privileges will be granted only if full restitution for the returned payments and payment for the service charge have been received by the University.

University departments which accept payments in the normal course of business will be notified no less frequently than once each month of the individuals whose payment writing privileges have been suspended. In the event that any of these departments should accept a payment from any such individual, and the payment is subsequently returned unpaid by the drawer bank, the full amount of the payment, shall be immediately charged against the account to which the payment was credited upon its original receipt in Cashiering/Student Accounts. The returned payment shall then be forwarded to the responsible department for collection.

Provided sufficient evidence, the Manager of Cashiering/Student Accounts shall have the right to reinstate payment writing privileges to individuals who have had this privilege suspended as a result of a bona fide bank error.

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