Commonwealth Act No. 157, enacted on November 9, 1936, amends Article 315 of the Revised Penal Code regarding fraudulent actions in hospitality settings. It introduces subsection (e), which criminalizes obtaining food, refreshment, or accommodation from hotels and similar establishments without payment, with intent to defraud. Additionally, it addresses the use of false pretenses to gain credit and the act of abandoning or secretly removing baggage without settling bills. The law aims to protect proprietors and managers from deceitful practices in the hospitality industry.
November 9, 1936
COMMONWEALTH ACT NO. 157
AN ACT AMENDING ARTICLE THREE HUNDRED AND FIFTEEN, PARAGRAPH TWO, OF THE REVISED PENAL CODE
SECTION 1. Article three hundred and fifteen, paragraph two, of the Revised Penal Code is hereby amended by adding thereto subsection (e), to read as follows:
"(e) By obtaining any food, refreshment or accommodation at a hotel, inn, restaurant, boarding house, lodging house, or apartment house and the like, without paying therefor, with intent to defraud the proprietor or manager thereof, or by obtaining credit at a hotel, inn, restaurant, boarding house, lodging house or apartment house by the use of any false pretense, or by abandoning or surreptitiously removing any part of his baggage from a hotel, inn, restaurant, boarding house, lodging house, or apartment house after obtaining credit, food, refreshment, or accommodation therein without paying for his food, refreshment or accommodation." HTCISE
SECTION 2. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.
Enacted, without Executive approval, November 9, 1936.