Idaho § 18-3619 - Slugs or counterfeited coins - Penalty for use in vending machines or coin-boxes

§ 18-3619. Slugs or counterfeited coins - Penalty for use in vending machines or coin-boxes

Any person who, by means of any token, slug, false or counterfeited coin, or by any other means, method, trick or device whatsoever not lawfully authorized by the owner, lessee, or licensee of any vending machine, coin-box telephone or other receptacle designed to receive or be operated by lawful coin of the United States of America in furtherance of or connection with the sale, use or enjoyment of property or service, knowingly shall operate or cause to be operated, or shall attempt to operate or attempt to cause to be operated, any vending machine, coin-box telephone or other receptacle designed to receive or be operated by lawful coin of the United States of America, or whoever shall take, obtain, accept or receive, from or by means of any such machine, coin-box telephone or other receptacle, any article of value or service or the use or enjoyment of any telephone, telegraph or other facility or service, without depositing in, delivering to and payment into such machine, coin-box telephone or receptacle the amount of lawful coin of the United States of America required therefor by the owner, lessee or licensee of such machine, coin-box telephone or other receptacle, shall be fined not more than two hundred dollars ($200.00), or imprisoned not more than sixty (60) days, or both.

[I.C., sec. 18-3619, as added by 1972, ch. 336, sec. 1, p. 920.]