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(A) No person shall obtain food, lodging, or other accommodation in any hotel, motel, inn, boarding, eating or rooming house or place, or any other lodging place, with the intent to defraud the owner or keeper.
(B) Proof that lodging, food, and other accommodations were obtained by false pretense or fictitious show of any package or other property, or that the person gave a check or negotiable paper on which payment was refused, or that the person left the hotel, motel, inn, boarding, eating or rooming house or place, or other lodging place, without paying or offering to pay for the food, lodging, or other accommodation, or that the person surreptitiously removed, or attempted to remove the package or property, or that the person registered under a fictitious name shall be prima facie proof of attempt to defraud.
(C) No person shall refuse to pay the legal fare of any of the vehicles mentioned in this section after having hired the same, and no person shall hire any vehicle with intent to defraud the person from whom it is hired of the value of such service.
(D) This section shall not apply where there has been an agreement in writing for delay in payment.
(Prior Code, § 10-305) Penalty, see § 10.99
Cross-reference:
Failure to pay fare, see § 132.06
Any person concealing unpurchased merchandise of any establishment, either on the premises or outside the premises of the establishment, shall be presumed to have so concealed the merchandise with the intention of committing a wrongful taking of such merchandise. Such concealment or the finding of such unpurchased merchandise concealed upon the person, or among the belongings of such person, shall be conclusive evidence of reasonable grounds and probable cause for the detention in a reasonable manner and for a reasonable length of time of such person by a merchant, or his or her agent or employee; any such reasonable detention shall not be deemed to be unlawful nor render any such merchant, or his or her agent or employee, criminally or civilly liable.
(Prior Code, § 10-306)
No person shall use or accept the use and services of any street car, taxicab, omnibus, automobile, or any other means of public conveyance or passengers, operating under the code, ordinance, franchise, permit, or license of the town or state, and refuse or fail to pay to the operator of the conveyance the usual, customary, regulation, or legal charge, or price as fare immediately upon the performance of the service.
(Prior Code, § 10-307) Penalty, see § 10.99
It is unlawful for any person, with intent to cheat and defraud, to obtain, or attempt to obtain, from any person any money, property, or valuable thing by means of any false or bogus check, or by any other written or printed, or engraved, instrument or spurious coin. The term FALSE OR BOGUS CHECK shall include checks or orders given for money or property which are not honored on account of insufficient funds of the maker to pay the same, as against the maker or drawer thereof. The making, drawing, issuing, or delivering of a check, draft, or order, payment of which is refused by the drawee, shall be prima facie evidence of intent to defraud and the knowledge of insufficient funds in, or credit with, such bank or other depository. Such maker or drawer shall not have paid the drawee the amount due thereon, together with the protest fees, and the check or order shall be presented for payment within 30 days after the same is delivered and accepted.
(Prior Code, § 10-308) Penalty, see § 10.99
It is unlawful for any person knowingly to deceive another, whether by impersonation, misrepresentation, or otherwise, when such deception results in, or contributes to, the loss, damage, harm, or injury of the person deceived or of a third party, or results in, or contributes to, the benefit of the deceiver.
(Prior Code, § 10-309) Penalty, see § 10.99
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