{"data":{"id":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-21-21-1503","jurisdiction":"us-ok","citation":"Okla. Stat. tit. 21, § 21-1503","heading":"Defrauding hotels, restaurants, etc","body":"Any person who shall obtain food, lodging, services or other\n\naccommodations at any hotel, inn, restaurant, boarding house,\n\nrooming house, motel or auto camp, with intent to defraud the owner\n\nor keeper thereof, if the value of such food, lodging, services or\n\nother accommodations is less than One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00),\n\nshall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall\n\nbe fined not exceeding Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00), or be\n\nimprisoned in the county jail not exceeding three (3) months, or\n\npunished by both such fine and imprisonment, and if the value of\n\nsuch food, lodging, services or accommodations is valued at One\n\nThousand Dollars ($1,000.00) or more, any person convicted hereunder\n\nshall be deemed guilty of a Class D3 felony offense and shall be\n\npunished by imprisonment as provided for in subsections B through F\n\nof Section 20P of this title. Any person who shall obtain shelter,\n\nlodging, or any other services at any apartment house, apartment,\n\nrental unit, rental house, or trailer camp, with intent to defraud\n\nthe owner or keeper thereof, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and\n\nupon conviction thereof shall be fined not exceeding One Hundred\n\nDollars ($100.00), or be imprisoned in the county jail not exceeding\n\nthree (3) months, or be punished by both fine and imprisonment.\n\nProof that such lodging, food, services or other accommodations were\n\nobtained by false pretense or by false or fictitious show or\n\npretense of any baggage or other property, or that he gave a check\n\non which payment was refused, or that he left the hotel, inn,\n\nrestaurant, boarding house, rooming house, motel, apartment house,\n\napartment, rental unit or rental house, trailer camp or auto camp,\n\nwithout payment or offering to pay for such food, lodging, services\n\nor other accommodation, or that he surreptitiously removed or\n\nattempted to remove his baggage, or that he registered under a\n\nfictitious name, shall be prima facie proof of the intent to defraud\n\nmentioned in this section; but this section shall not apply where\n\nthere has been an agreement in writing for delay in payment.","path":["OK Code","Title 21"],"source_url":"https://www.oklegislature.gov/OK_Statutes/CompleteTitles/os21.pdf","current_through":"2026-08-14","vintage":"open-us-law v2026.08, retrieved 2026-09-14","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T18:32:36Z","sha256":"9a898dfc8f5bc21d57d77078ee9be93b3ba1f18d04ebdd88c0bf181e42357720","source_id":"us-ok","stale":false,"prev":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-21-21-1502","next":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-21-21-1505"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}