1158 ARTICLE 27

Fraud—-Debtors.

1927, ch. 522.

213. Any person who, with intent to intimidate a debtor, shall make
use of any form in imitation of any form in use in any Court of this State
or in simulation of legal process by sending or serving the same on said
debtor, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof,
shall be punished by a fine of not less than Ten Dollars or more than One
Hundred Dollars for each offense.

Fraud—Transfers.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 186. 1924, ch. 470.

214. No transfer ticket or written or printed instrument giving or
purporting to give the right of transfer to any person from a conveyance
operated upon one line or route of any carrier of passengers to a conveyance
operated upon another line or route of the same carrier of passengers, or
upon the line or route of any other carrier of passengers, shall be issued,
sold or given except to a person lawfully entitled thereto. Any person who
shall issue, sell or give such a transfer ticket or instrument aforesaid to a
person not lawfully entitled thereto, and any person not lawfully entitled
thereto who shall receive, with intent to use for passage, or who shall use
or offer for passage any such transfer ticket or instrument, or shall sell or
give away such transfer ticket or instrument to another with intent to have
such transfer ticket used or offered for passage, shall be guilty of a mis-
demeanor, and, on conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine not less
than $10.00 or more than one hundred dollars for the first offense, and for
each subsequent offense by a fine of not less than $100.00, or by imprison-
ment for a term not exceeding six months, or both, in the discretion of
the court.

Fraud—By Hirers.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 187. 1912, sec. 161. 1904, sec. 144. 1888, sec. 107. 1872, ch. 423.

215. Every hirer of a personal chattel of the value of twenty dollars
and upwards, who shall secrete, make away with, sell, or otherwise dispose
of the same, with intent to defraud the owner thereof, shall be guilty of a
misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be liable to a fine not ex-
ceeding double the value of the article disposed of, and imprisonment for
a term not exceeding thirty days, or either, at the discretion of the court.

1927, ch. 533, sec. 187A.

216. Any person who shall, with intent to defraud, hire, lease or rent
a motor vehicle, the hire or charge for which is based either in whole or
part on the distance such motor vehicle travels while in the custody of the
person hiring, leasing or renting the same, knowing that the hubdometer
or other mechanical device attached to such motor vehicle, or any part
thereof, for the purpose of registering the distance such motor, vehicle trav-
els, does not correctly register the distance such motor vehicle travels, or
who shall knowingly deceive any person who hires, leases or rents any
motor vehicle as to the distance such motor, vehicle has traveled during the
period it was so hired, leased or rented, and shall make a charge for the use
of such motor vehicle based wholly or in part upon the inaccurate distance,