Are Campgrounds subject to Innkeeper laws?
An interesting question came up recently. Are Campgrounds covered under Innkeeper laws, aka Hospitality laws? Such laws are designed to protect both the guest and the operator of lodging facilities. ...
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wa8yxm wrote:
I have searched the US constitution for it, I believe the provision about quartering of soldiers is where it is derived from.. But that defrauding an inkeeper is the only crime other than treason in the document is what I was taught and by a teacher who should know what he is talking about.
By the way. The practice of the British army was to put the soldiers up anywhere they {deleted} well pleased and not bother paying for it, It was the king's right to quarter them you see.
Thus, "Obtaining food or lodging without intent to pay" is exactly what that article was addressing.
I think your teacher must have been thinking of the Third Amendment, which places restrictions on the Government's ability to billet soldiers in private homes. Or he might have had in mind the Declaration of Independence, where that practice is named as one of the Colonists' grievances.
In any/either case, the language doesn't touch/affect "transactions" between private Citizens....and Treason remains the only crime specifically named/defined in The U.S. Constitution.(Article III, section III)
