9.07.050 Defrauding an Innkeeper.
(1) Defrauding an innkeeper is obtaining any food, lodging, or other accommodation at any inn, restaurant, hotel, boarding house, apartment house, dwelling unit or rooming house by means of any trick, deception or false representation, statement or pretense, with intent to defraud the owner or keeper thereof.
(2) As used in this Section, “Dwelling Unit” means a structure or a part of a structure that is used as a home, residence or sleeping place by one person who maintains a household or by two or more persons who maintain a common household.
(3) The following shall be prima facie evidence of the intent to defraud an owner or innkeeper as provided in this Section:
(a) Obtaining lodging, food or other accommodations by false pretense or by false or fictitious show or pretense of any baggage or other property;
(b) Paying for such food, lodging or other accommodation by a check or other negotiable paper on which payment had been refused;
(c) Leaving the inn, restaurant, hotel, boarding house, apartment house, dwelling unit or rooming house without paying or offering to pay for such food, lodging or other accommodation;
(d) Surreptitiously removing or attempting to remove baggage or other property;
(e) Registering under a fictitious name.
Defrauding an innkeeper of the value of less than Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00) is a Class A Public Offense. (Ord. 03-117 § 2, 2003; Ord. 87-149 § 5, 1987; Ord. 83-75 § 2, 1983.)