(a) No person shall stop, put up, board or lodge at any boarding house as a guest or boarder by the day, week or month, or procure any food, entertainment or accommodation, without paying therefor, with intent to defraud the owner, proprietor or keeper of such boarding house out of the pay for such board, lodging, food, entertainment or accommodations, unless there is a distinct and express agreement made by such person with the owner, proprietor or keeper of such boarding house for credit. No person, with intent to so defraud, shall obtain credit at any boarding house for such board, lodging, food, entertainment or accommodation, by means of any false show of baggage or effects brought thereto. However, no conviction shall be made within ten days of the time of the violation of this section.
(b) No person shall put up at any hotel, motel, inn, restaurant or cafe as a guest and procure any food, entertainment or accommodation without paying therefor, with intent to defraud the keeper thereof out of the pay for the same except when credit is given therefor by express agreement. No person, with intent to defraud such keeper out of the pay therefor, shall obtain credit at any hotel, motel, inn, restaurant or cafe for such food, entertainment or accommodation, by means of any false show of baggage or effects brought thereto.
(c) Obtaining food, lodging or accommodation by false pretense or by a false or fictitious show of baggage or other property, or refusal or neglect to pay therefor on demand, or payment thereof with check, draft or order upon a bank or other depository on which payment was refused, or absconding without paying or offering to pay thereof, or surreptitiously removing or attempting to remove baggage, shall be prima-facie evidence of intent to defraud as mentioned in subsections (a) and (b) thereof.
(Ord. 85. Passed. 5-10-72.)