                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

DEFRAUDING HOTELS, MOTELS, CAMPGROUNDS, BOARDINGHOUSES, ETC (§ 18.2-188)

It shall be unlawful for any person, without paying therefor, and with the
intent to cheat or defraud the owner or keeper to:

1. Put up at a hotel, motel, campground or boardinghouse;

2. Obtain food from a restaurant or other eating house;

3. Gain entrance to an amusement park; or

4. Without having an express agreement for credit, procure food, entertainment
or accommodation from any hotel, motel, campground, boardinghouse, restaurant,
eating house or amusement park.
			It shall be unlawful for any person, with intent to cheat or defraud the
owner or keeper out of the pay therefor to obtain credit at a hotel, motel,
campground, boardinghouse, restaurant or eating house for food, entertainment or
accommodation by means of any false show of baggage or effects brought thereto.
			It shall be unlawful for any person, with intent to cheat or defraud, to
obtain credit at a hotel, motel, campground, boardinghouse, restaurant, eating
house or amusement park for food, entertainment or accommodation through any
misrepresentation or false statement.
			It shall be unlawful for any person, with intent to cheat or defraud, to
remove or cause to be removed any baggage or effects from a hotel, motel,
campground, boardinghouse, restaurant or eating house while there is a lien
existing thereon for the proper charges due from him for fare and board
furnished.
			Any person who violates any provision of this section is, if the value of
service, credit or benefit procured or obtained is $1,000 or more, guilty of a
Class 5 felony or is, if the value is less than $1,000, guilty of a Class 1
misdemeanor.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 18.1-120; 1960, c. 358; 1974, c. 615; 1975, cc. 14, 15;
1977, c. 178; 1981, c. 197; 1993, c. 575; 2018, cc. 764, 765; 2020, cc. 89, 401.