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2007 SESSION
HB 2960 Hotel or restaurant services; failure to pay charges, penalty.
Introduced by: Robert B. Bell | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:
Hotel or restaurant services, etc.; larceny; penalty. Provides that failure to pay charges at a hotel, motel, campground, boardinghouse, restaurant, eating house, or amusement park for food, entertainment or accommodation is larceny, making the offense subject to the provision that a third larceny conviction, regardless of the amount, is a Class 6 felony. If the value of the service received is $200 or less, the penalty will remain a Class 1 misdemeanor; if it is $200 or more, the offense will be grand larceny, punishable by imprisonment in a state correctional facility for not less than one nor more than 20 years or, in the discretion of the jury or of court trying the case without a jury, confinement in jail not exceeding 12 months or a fine not more than $2,500, either or both.
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HISTORY
- 01/10/07 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/07 073210232
- 01/10/07 House: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
- 01/17/07 House: Assigned Courts sub: Criminal Law
- 01/22/07 House: Reported from Courts of Justice (18-Y 0-N)
- 01/22/07 House: Referred to Committee on Appropriations
- 01/24/07 House: Assigned App. sub: Public Safety (Sherwood)
- 02/06/07 House: Left in Appropriations