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Penal Code § 365

CHAPTER 12. Other Injuries to Persons

Current as of September 28, 2026Pen. Code, § 365Official source ↗

Amended by Stats. 1999, Ch. 354, Sec. 3. Effective January 1, 2000.

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.