NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1969 SESSION

CHAPTER 947

SENATE BILL 754

AN ACT TO AMEND G.S. 14-110 RELATING TO OBTAINING ENTERTAINMENT AT HOTELS AND BOARDINGHOUSES WITHOUT PAYING THEREFOR SO AS TO MAKE CERTAIN CONDUCT PRIMA FACIE EVIDENCE THEREOF.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1.  G.S. 14-110 is amended by rewriting this Section in its entirety to read as follows:

"G.S. 14-110.  Defrauding Inn Keeper. No person shall, with intent to defraud, obtain food, lodging, or other accommodations at a hotel, inn, boardinghouse or eating house. Whoever violates this Section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall upon conviction be fined or imprisoned at the discretion of the court. Obtaining such lodging, food, or other accommodation by false pretense, or by false or fictitious show of pretense of baggage or other property, or absconding without paying or offering to pay therefor, or surreptitiously removing or attempting to remove such baggage, shall be prima facie evidence of such fraudulent intent, but this Section shall not apply where there has been an agreement in writing for delay in such payment."

Sec. 2.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3.  This Act shall become effective upon its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 20th day of June, 1969.