125 - Soliciting the surrender of tickets a misdemeanor.

§  125. Soliciting the surrender of tickets a misdemeanor.  Any hotel,  boarding-house, lodging-house or restaurant owner, proprietor,  manager,  clerk  or  other  employee or any runner, guide, porter or solicitor who  solicits in any manner any immigrant or  steerage  passenger  inward  or  outward  bound,  having  a  railroad or steamship ticket, order or other  instrument  entitling  or  purporting  to  entitle  such  passenger   to  transportation  or conveyance on any railroad or steamship, to surrender  such ticket, order or other instrument to  such  hotel,  boarding-house,  lodging-house or restaurant owner, proprietor, manager or other employee  or to any runner, guide, porter or solicitor or any other person for the  purpose  of  detaining  any  such immigrant or steerage passenger in any  such hotel,  boarding-house,  lodging-house,  or  restaurant,  shall  be  guilty of a misdemeanor.