Chapter 9.24
THEFT, FRAUD AND RELATED OFFENSES

Sections:

9.24.010    Buying, receiving or concealing stolen property.

9.24.020    Obtaining property by false pretenses.

9.24.030    Defrauding of innkeepers.

9.24.040    Lodging accommodations.

9.24.010 Buying, receiving or concealing stolen property.

No person shall buy, receive, conceal or attempt to buy property that is known or reasonably should be known to such person to have been stolen. (Ord. 763 § 5-303, 1989)

9.24.020 Obtaining property by false pretenses.

A. No person shall, by any false pretenses or any privity or false token, and with intent to defraud, obtain or attempt to obtain from any other person, any money or property, nor shall any person obtain or attempt to obtain with like intent the signature of any person to any writing, the false making of which would be punishable as forgery.

B. The making of a bill of sale, assignment or mortgage of personal property by any person not the owner thereof for the purpose of obtaining money or credit or to secure an existing indebtedness, is a false pretense within the meaning of this section.

C. The presentation by any person of a bill, invoice, statement, account or claim in writing to another knowing the same to contain items of overcharge, false items, or wrongful charges, with intent to obtain payment thereof, whether obtained or not, is a false pretense, and the account, bill, invoice or claim without the signature thereon of the person presenting it, is a false token within this section. (Ord. 763 § 5-421, 1989)

9.24.030 Defrauding of innkeepers.

A. No person shall, with intent to defraud, obtain any food, lodging or other accommodations at a hotel, motel, apartment house, boardinghouse, tourist park, trailer park or restaurant.

B. No person shall, after having obtained food, lodging or other accommodations at a hotel, motel, apartment house, boardinghouse, tourist park, trailer park or restaurant, leave or surreptitiously remove his or her baggage and clothing from the premises without first paying or tendering paying for such food, lodging or other accommodations. (Ord. 763 § 5-410, 1989)

9.24.040 Lodging accommodations.

No person shall write, cause to be written, or knowingly permit to be written, in a register in a hotel, motel, lodging house, rooming house or other place where transients are accommodated in the city, any other or different name or designation than the true name or designation of the person so registered, or the name or designation by which such person is generally known. (Ord. 763 § 5-411, 1989)