BLAIR LEE III, Acting Governor

2493

Every person who shall by any false or fraudulent
representations, or by any false show of baggage, goods or
chattels, which are calculated to deceive any hotel
proprietor, keeper or manager, obtain lodging or credit in
an amount in excess of the realizable value of such baggage,
goods or chattels, and shall subsequently refuse, decline or
fail to pay in full for his credit, board or lodging,
whether or not such person shall have made any payment on
account shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction
thereof shall be punished by a fine of not more than one
hundred dollars or by imprisonment in jail for a term of not
less than one month nor more than six months, or by both
such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court.]

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Every person who shall at any restaurant, tavern or the
like, or at any hotel, inn, boardinghouse, hospital or
sanitarium receive or cause to be furnished any food,
beverage or accommodation and shall fraudulently fail to pay
in full for same, whether or cot such person shall have made
any payment on account, and every person who shall obtain
credit at any restaurant, tavern or the like, or at any
hotel, inn, boardinghouse, hospital or sanitarium by the use
of any false pretense or device, or by fraudulently
depositing at such restaurant, tavern or the like, or at any
hotel, inn, boardinghouse, hospital or sanitarium any
baggage or property of a realizable value less than the
amount of such credit or of the bill by such person incurred
whether or not such person shall have made any payment on
account; and every person who, after obtaining credit or
accommodation at any restaurant, tavern or the like, or at
any hotel, inn, boardinghouse, hospital or sanitarium shall
abscond or fraudulently depart or fraudulently remove his
baggage therefrom without discharging the debts as aforesaid
incurred, whether or not such person shall have made any
payment on account, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and
upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not
more than one hundred dollars or by imprisonment in jail for
a term of not less than one month nor more than six months,
or by both such fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of
the court. And in determination of any question arising
under this section the fact that any such person so
obtaining food or beverage, accommodation or credit, upon
request or demand for payment of any amount then due
therefor failed or neglected to comply in full with such
demand shall be treated as presumptive evidence that such
failure or neglect to make such payment was fraudulent even
though payment of a portion of amount then due shall have
been made or a payment on account for the food or beverage,
accommodation or credit so obtained had theretofore been
made, and similarly the fact that the departure of any such
person or removal of his baggage without first paying or
discharging in full his debts as aforesaid, even though a
payment on account of such debt may have been made, was
without the knowledge or consent of the proprietor or
manager of such restaurant, tavern or the like, or hotel,