§ 8.10.050. Defrauding proprietors of hotels, inns, restaurants, motels, trailer parks, and taxicab drivers.

(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, boardinghouse, rooming house, lodging house, furnished apartment house, furnished bungalow court, furnished auto camp, eating house, restaurant, grocery store, market or dairy, without paying therefor, with intent to defraud the proprietor or manager thereof; or

(2)

To obtain credit at a hotel, inn, trailer park, motor court, boardinghouse, 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, boardinghouse, 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;

(4)

Any person refusing to pay the driver of a taxicab after being transported to any location within the city with intent to defraud is guilty of a misdemeanor.

(b)

Any person who violates any of the provisions of subsection (a) of this section shall, upon conviction, be punished by a fine of not more than $500.00 and/or imprisonment in the city jail for not more than six months, or any combination thereof, where the total value of the credit, food, foodstuffs, lodging, merchandise or other accommodations received from any one such establishment is $100.00 or less.

(c)

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 willfully 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 accommodations 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.

(d)

This section shall not apply where there has been an agreement in writing for delay in payment for a period to exceed ten days.

(Code 1966, § 11.12.500; Ord. No. 3159, § 1, 2-27-84)

State law reference

Similar Provisions, NRS 205.445.