Legal Documents of Gatlinburg

Any person who shall, at any hotel, inn, boardinghouse, motel, motor lodge, restaurant, or tourist court, order or receive or cause to be furnished, any food or accommodation; and any person who shall obtain credit at any hotel, inn, boarding house, motel, motor lodge, restaurant, or tourist court, by the use of any false pretense or device, or by fraudulently depositing at such hotel, inn, boarding house, motel, motor lodge, or tourist court any baggage or property of value less than the amount of such credit, or of the bill by such person incurred, unless credit be given by express agreement; and any person who, after obtaining accommodations at any hotel, inn, boarding house, motel, motor lodge, or tourist court, shall remove any property from the premises, with the intent to deprive the owner thereof; any person who, after obtaining credit or accommodations at any hotel, inn, boardinghouse, motel, motor lodge, tourist court, shall surreptitiously remove his or her baggage or property therefrom shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

Proof that lodging, food, property or other accommodation was obtained by false pretense, or by false or fictitious show or pretense of baggage, or that the party fraudulently refused to pay for such food, lodging, property or accommodation on demand, or that he absconded without paying or offering to pay for such food, lodging, property or accommodations, or that he surreptitiously removed or attempted to remove his baggage shall be prima facie proof of the fraudulent intent mentioned in this section. (1976 Code, § 10-237)