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<baltimore-city-law heading="Subtitle 19 – Fraud - Against Restaurant">
  <section prefix="§" num="19-1" heading="Prohibited conduct; penalties.">
    <text>Any person who:</text>
    <para num="(1)">obtains any food or other service at any restaurant without paying therefor, except when credit shall have been given by express agreement;</para>
    <para num="(2)">obtains credit at any restaurant by any false or fraudulent means or representations;</para>
    <para num="(3)">after obtaining food or other service at any restaurant, absconds without paying for such food or other service; or</para>
    <para num="(4)">in any other manner defrauds any such restaurant, the proprietor, manager, clerk, cashier, or other person in charge thereof;
shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding $100.</para>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">City Code, 1966, art. 19, §25</annotation>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">1976/83, art. 19, §30</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 52-218</annotation>
  </section>
</baltimore-city-law>
