A. Any person who, with intent to defraud, procures food or accommodations in any public establishment without making payment therefor in accordance with his agreement with such public establishment, is guilty of a Class B municipal offense if the total amount due under such agreement is less than five hundred dollars ($500.00).

B. “Agreement with such public establishment” means any written or verbal agreement as to the price to be charged for, and the acceptance of, food, beverage, service, or accommodations where the price to be charged therefor is printed on a menu or schedule of rates shown to or made available by a public establishment to the patron and includes the acceptance of such food, beverage, service, or accommodations for which a reasonable charge is made.

C. “Public establishment” means any establishment selling or offering for sale prepared food or beverages to the public generally, or any establishment leasing or renting overnight sleeping accommodations to the public generally, including, but not exclusively, restaurants, cafes, dining rooms, lunch counters, coffee shops, boarding houses, hotels, motor hotels, motels, and rooming houses, unless the rental thereof is on a month-to-month basis or a longer period of time.

D. It shall be evidence of an intent to defraud that food, service, or accommodations were given to any person who gave false information concerning his name or address, or both, in obtaining such food, service, or accommodations, or that such person removed or attempted to remove his baggage from the premises of such public establishment without giving notice of his intent to do so to such public establishment. These provisions shall not constitute the sole means of establishing evidence that a person accused under subsection (A) of this section had an intent to defraud. Proof of such intent to defraud may be made by any facts or circumstances sufficient to establish such intent to defraud beyond a reasonable doubt as provided by law. (Ord. 200 §1, 1982; Amended Ord. 472 §5, 2003)