{"code":"PEN","codeName":"Penal Code","section":"365","citation":"Pen. Code, § 365","status":"in-force","lawOn":"2026-09-28","headings":[{"name":"PART 1. OF CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS [25. - 680.4.]","url":"https://blackletter.si/penal-code/part-1"},{"name":"TITLE 9. OF CRIMES AGAINST THE PERSON INVOLVING SEXUAL ASSAULT, AND CRIMES AGAINST PUBLIC DECENCY AND GOOD MORALS [261. - 368.7.]","url":"https://blackletter.si/penal-code/part-1/title-9"},{"name":"CHAPTER 12. Other Injuries to Persons [346. - 367g.]","url":"https://blackletter.si/penal-code/part-1/title-9/chapter-12"}],"history":"Amended by Stats. 1999, Ch. 354, Sec. 3.   Effective January 1, 2000.","effective":"2000-01-01","html":"<p>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 <a href=\"/civ/1865\">1865</a> of the Civil Code shall be rebuttably presumed to have acted with just cause or excuse for purposes of this section.</p>","text":"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.","otherVersions":[],"url":"https://blackletter.si/penal-code/other-injuries-to-persons-365","source":"California Legislative Information bulk export (pubinfo)"}