Penal Code section 649

Any person engaged in the transportation of persons by taxicab or other means of conveyance who knowingly misdirects a prospective guest of any hotel, inn, boardinghouse or lodginghouse or knowingly takes such a prospective guest to a hotel, inn, boardinghouse or lodginghouse different from that of his instructions from such prospective guest is guilty of a misdemeanor.

Source: Section 649, https://leginfo.­legislature.­ca.­gov/faces/codes_displaySection.­xhtml?lawCode=PEN§ionNum=649.­ (updated Jan. 1, 1953; accessed Jun. 30, 2025).

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