California · Penal Code

PEN §365: Every person, and every agent or officer of any corporation carrying on business as an innkeeper, or as a common carrier of passengers, who refuses, without just cause or excuse, to receive and entert

Misdemeanor

What this law says, in plain English

Innkeepers and passenger carriers who unlawfully refuse service to guests or passengers commit a misdemeanor, unless they followed Civil Code Section 1865 procedures.

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Every person, and every agent or officer of any corporation carrying on business as an innkeeper, or as a common carrier of passengers, who refuses, without just cause or excuse, to receive and entertain any guest, or to receive and carry any passenger, is guilty of a misdemeanor. However, an innkeeper who has proceeded as authorized by Section 1865 of the Civil Code shall be rebuttably presumed to have acted with just cause or excuse for purposes of this section.

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