Oklahoma § 21-1503 - Defrauding hotels, restaurants, etc

§ 21-1503. Defrauding hotels, restaurants, etc

Any person who shall obtain food, lodging, services or other

accommodations at any hotel, inn, restaurant, boarding house,

rooming house, motel or auto camp, with intent to defraud the owner

or keeper thereof, if the value of such food, lodging, services or

other accommodations is less than One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00),

shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall

be fined not exceeding Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00), or be

imprisoned in the county jail not exceeding three (3) months, or

punished by both such fine and imprisonment, and if the value of

such food, lodging, services or accommodations is valued at One

Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00) or more, any person convicted hereunder

Oklahoma Statutes - Title 21. Crimes and Punishments

shall be deemed guilty of a Class D3 felony offense and shall be

punished by imprisonment as provided for in subsections B through F

of Section 20P of this title. Any person who shall obtain shelter,

lodging, or any other services at any apartment house, apartment,

rental unit, rental house, or trailer camp, with intent to defraud

the owner or keeper thereof, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and

upon conviction thereof shall be fined not exceeding One Hundred

Dollars ($100.00), or be imprisoned in the county jail not exceeding

three (3) months, or be punished by both fine and imprisonment.

Proof that such lodging, food, services or other accommodations were

obtained by false pretense or by false or fictitious show or

pretense of any baggage or other property, or that he gave a check

on which payment was refused, or that he left the hotel, inn,

restaurant, boarding house, rooming house, motel, apartment house,

apartment, rental unit or rental house, trailer camp or auto camp,

without payment or offering to pay for such food, lodging, services

or other accommodation, or that he surreptitiously removed or

attempted to remove his baggage, or that he registered under a

fictitious name, shall be prima facie proof of the intent to defraud

mentioned in this section; but this section shall not apply where

there has been an agreement in writing for delay in payment.

Added by Laws 1915, c. 178, § 1. Amended by Laws 1963, c. 127, § 1,

emerg. eff. June 3, 1963; Laws 1968, c. 205, § 1, emerg. eff. April

22, 1968; Laws 1993, c. 147, § 2, eff. Sept. 1, 1993; Laws 1997, c.

133, § 364, eff. July 1, 1999; Laws 1999, 1st Ex. Sess., c. 5, §

256, eff. July 1, 1999; Laws 2001, c. 437, § 6, eff. July 1, 2001;

State Question No. 780, Initiative Petition No. 404, § 11, adopted

at General Election held on November 8, 2016, eff. July 1, 2017;

Laws 2025, c. 486, § 685, eff. Jan. 1, 2026.

NOTE: Laws 1998, 1st Ex. Sess., c. 2, § 23 amended the effective

date of Laws 1997, c. 133, § 364 from July 1, 1998, to July 1, 1999.