In a training session, a teller made a comment that in the state of Georgia there was no longer such a thing as a stale dated check. She could not elaborate and wondered if someone knows what she was talking about? Thank you.

see this section of OCGA for the law on stale dated checks.

That's strange. One of our tellers in Florida just made the same statement about stale dated checks. I wonder what the source of this confusion is?

Here's our situation: in a training situation the tellers were told the default expiration date of a stop-payment is six months out, at which time the check is stale-dated. A teller in the class stated that 'there is no such thing as a stale-dated check in Georgia.' She said they cashed a check from 2000 just last week. She was from another affiliate bank. From reading what Louvera passed on, it appears the bank could have a "policy/procedure" in place to either accept or not accept stale dated checks. The trainer was speaking generally but perhaps that teller's bank did agree to cash them? Would that be a correct interpretation?

I believe the confusion comes from the verbiage of the law - no penalty for cashing a stale dated check. We're just not obligated to do so.