Section 6-25-101 - Definitions - evidence of intentAs used in this part 1, unless the context otherwise requires:
(1) "Agreement with the public establishment" means any written or verbal agreement as to the price to be charged for, and the acceptance of, food, beverage, service, or accommodations where the price to be charged therefor is printed on a menu or schedule of rates shown to or made available by a public establishment to the patron and includes the acceptance of the food, beverage, service, or accommodations for which a reasonable charge is made.(3) "Public establishment" means any establishment selling or offering for sale prepared food or beverages to the public generally, or any establishment leasing or renting overnight sleeping accommodations to the public generally, including, but not exclusively, restaurants, cafes, dining rooms, lunch counters, coffee shops, boarding houses, hotels, motor hotels, motels, and rooming houses, unless the rental thereof is on a month-to-month basis or a longer period of time.(4) It shall be evidence of an intent to defraud that food, service, or accommodations were given to any person who gave false information concerning his or her name or address, or both, in obtaining the food, service, or accommodations, or that the person removed or attempted to remove his or her baggage from the premises of the public establishment without giving notice of his or her intent to do so to the public establishment. These provisions shall not constitute the sole means of establishing evidence that a person accused under this part 1 had an intent to defraud. Proof of intent to defraud may be made by any facts or circumstances sufficient to establish the intent to defraud beyond a reasonable doubt as provided by law.(5) If any person, partnership, or corporation shall by written or verbal complaint, or otherwise, institute or cause to be instituted any prosecution for any violation of this section and shall thereafter, whether or not restitution is sought or received from the alleged offender, fail to cooperate in the full prosecution of the alleged offender without reasonable cause, the court having jurisdiction, on motion of the prosecuting attorney appearing therein and, after notice to the person, partnership, or corporation and an opportunity to be heard, may give judgment against the person, partnership, or corporation and in favor of the county wherein prosecution was commenced for all costs of the prosecution, including a reasonable allowance for the time of the prosecuting attorney.Amended by 2021 Ch. 462,§66, eff. 3/1/2022.L. 2017: Entire article added with relocations, (HB 17-1245), ch. 240, p. 985, § 1, effective August 9.This section is similar to former § 12-44-101 as it existed prior to 2017.
2021 Ch. 462, was passed without a safety clause. See Colo. Const. art. V, § 1(3).