California Legal Codes and Statutes

§ 649a

Added by Stats. 1953, Ch. 32.

Any person engaged in the operation of any hotel, inn, boardinghouse or lodginghouse who pays another any compensation for inducing or attempting to induce, by false statement or misrepresentation, prospective guests of a given hotel, inn, boardinghouse or lodginghouse to enter, lodge at or become a guest of any other hotel, inn, boardinghouse or lodginghouse is guilty of a misdemeanor.

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Cal. Pen. Code § 649a (2026)
https://ca.codecond.com/codes/pen/part-1-of-crimes-and-punishments/title-15-miscellaneous-crimes/chapter-2-of-other-and-miscellaneous-offenses/section-649a

Other sections in Chapter 2 - Of Other and Miscellaneous Offenses

§ 639§ 639a§ 640§ 640.2§ 640.5§ 640.6§ 640.7§ 640.8§ 640a§ 640b…§ 653s§ 653t§ 653u§ 653v§ 653w§ 653x§ 653y§ 653z§ 653.1§ 653.2

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