6-1-23: DEFRAUDING PROPRIETORS OF HOTELS, INNS, RESTAURANTS, MOTELS, TRAILER PARKS:
   (A)   It is unlawful for any person:
      1.   To obtain food, foodstuffs, lodging, merchandise or other accommodations at any hotel, inn, trailer park, motor court, boarding house, rooming house, lodging house, furnished apartment house, furnished bungalow court, furnished auto camp, eating house, restaurant, grocery store, market or dairy, without paying herefor, with intent to defraud the proprietor or manager thereof;
      2.   To obtain credit at a hotel, inn, trailer park, motor court, boarding house, rooming house, lodging house, furnished apartment house, furnished bungalow court, furnished auto camp, eating house, restaurant, grocery store, market or dairy by the use of any false pretense; or
      3.   After obtaining credit, food, lodging, merchandise, or other accommodations at a hotel, inn, trailer park, motor court, boarding house, rooming house, lodging house, furnished apartment house, furnished bungalow court, furnished auto camp, eating house, restaurant, grocery store, market, or dairy, to abscond or surreptitiously, or by force, menace, or threats, to remove any part of his baggage therefrom, without paying for his food or accommodations.
   (B)   Proof that lodging, food, foodstuffs, merchandise, or other accommodations 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 wilfully neglected to pay for such food, foodstuffs, lodging, merchandise or other accommodations, or that he gave in payment for such food, foodstuffs, lodging, merchandise or other accommodation negotiable paper on which payment was refused, or that he absconded without paying or offering to pay for such food, foodstuffs, lodging, merchandise, or other accommodations, or that he surreptitiously removed or attempted to remove his baggage, shall be prima facie evidence of the fraudulent intent mentioned in this section.
   (C)   This section does not apply where there has been an agreement in writing for delay in payment for a period to exceed ten (10) days. (Ord. 137, 5-23-1984)