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Any person who shall willfully obtain food, money, credit, lodging or accommodation at any hotel, inn, restaurant, boarding house or lodging house, without paying therefor, with intent to defraud the proprietor, owner, operator or keeper thereof; or who obtains food, money, credit, lodging, accommodation at such hotel, inn, restaurant, boarding house or lodging house, by the use of any false pretense; or who, after obtaining food, money, credit, lodging or accommodation at such hotel, inn, restaurant, boarding house or lodging house, removes or causes to be removed from such hotel, inn, restaurant, boarding house or lodging house, their baggage, without the permission or consent of the proprietor, manager or authorized employee thereof, before paying for such food, money, credit, lodging or accommodation, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor; provided, that the aggregate amount of food, credit, money, lodging or accommodation so obtained is less than $75.00. Proof that food, money, credit, lodging or accommodation were obtained by false pretense or by false or fictitious show or pretense of any baggage or other property; or that the person refused or neglected to pay for such food, money, credit, lodging or accommodation on demand; or that they gave in payment for such food, money, credit, lodging or accommodation, negotiable paper on which payment was refused; or that they absconded, or departed from, or left, the premises without paying for such food, money, credit, lodging or accommodation; or that they removed or attempted to remove, caused to be removed, or caused to be attempted to be removed, their property or baggage, shall be prima facie evidence of the fraudulent intent hereinbefore mentioned. (Ord. 5682 § 1, 2002.)