Posted: Sat Mar 20, 2010 9:11 pm
Clydascope wrote:AlexeyD wrote:From the resort's point of view it makes no difference whether a ticket that they sold was used by one person for the whole day, or by one person part of the day and another person the other part.
In California it's known as Defrauding an Innkeeper, CA Penal Code Section 537:
"(b) Any person who uses or attempts to use ski area facilities for
which payment is required without paying as required, or who resells
a ski lift ticket to another when the resale is not authorized by
the proprietor, is guilty of an infraction."
http://law.onecle.com/california/penal/537.html
http://news.sierrawave.net/eastern-sier ... -penalties
I'm not at all surprised by this, since I would expect the law to generally take the side of the service provider in situations like this. Morally and economically, however, asking to use someone's one-day lift pass after they are finished for the day is NOT equivalent to stealing by any stretch of the imagination, at least not in my book. But, if that sort of things keeps you from sleeping at night then you probably shouldn't do it.