§ 16-51. Defrauding hotels, apartments, restaurants, etc.

(a)

Any person who shall obtain food, lodging, services or other accommodations at any hotel, inn, restaurant, boardinghouse, roominghouse, motel or auto camp, with intent to defraud the owner or keeper thereof, if the value of such food, lodging, services or other accommodations is $500.00 or less, shall be guilty of an a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not exceeding $500.00, or be imprisoned in the city jail not exceeding three months, or punished by both such fine and imprisonment.

(b)

Any person who shall obtain shelter, lodging or any other services at any apartment house, apartment, rental unit, rental house, or trailer camp, with intent to defraud the owner or keeper thereof, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not exceeding $100.00.

(c)

Proof that such lodging, food, services or other accommodations were obtained by false pretense or by false or fictitious show or pretense of any baggage or other property, or that he gave a check on which payment was refused, or that he left the hotel, inn, restaurant, boardinghouse, roominghouse, motel, apartment house, apartment, rental unit or rental house, trailer camp or auto camp, without payment or offering to pay for such food, lodging, services or other accommodation, or that he surreptitiously removed or attempted to remove his baggage, or that he registered under a fictitious name, shall be prima facie proof of the intent to defraud mentioned in this section; but this section shall not apply where there has been an agreement in writing for delay in payment.

(Code 1966, §§ 14-64, 14-65; Code 1982, § 16-5; Ord. No. 1335, §§ 1, 2, 3-30-1970)

State law reference

Obtaining lodging fraudulently, 21 O.S. § 1503.