Chapter 7.30
OFFENSES AGAINST PROPERTY

Sections:

7.30.050  Defrauding an innkeeper.

7.30.050  Defrauding an innkeeper.

A. Any person who wilfully obtains food, money, credit, lodging or accommodation at any hotel, inn, restaurant, boardinghouse, or lodginghouse, without paying therefor, with intent to defraud the proprietor, owner, operator or keeper thereof; or who obtains food, money, credit, lodging or accommodations at such hotel, inn, restaurant, boardinghouse or lodginghouse, by the use of any false pretense; or who, after obtaining food, money, credit, lodging, or accommodation at such establishment, removes or causes to be removed from such establishment his or her baggage without the permission or consent of the proprietor, manager or authorized employee thereof, before paying for such food, money, credit, lodging or accommodation, shall be guilty of defrauding an innkeeper.

B. Proof that food, money, credit, lodging or accommodation were obtained by false pretense or by false or fictitious show or pretense of any baggage or other property, or that the person refused or neglected to pay for such food, money, credit, lodging or accommodation on demand, or that he or she gave in payment for such food, money, credit, lodging or accommodation, negotiable paper on which payment was refused, or that he or she absconded, or departed from, or left the premises without paying therefor, or that he or she removed or attempted to remove or caused to be removed, or caused to be attempted to be removed his or her property or baggage, shall be prima facie evidence of the fraudulent intent hereinbefore mentioned.

C. Defrauding an innkeeper is a Class B offense.

(Ord. 281 § 2 (part), 1979)