Any person who, with intent to obtain state-owned or controlled bus public transportation service without payment of the lawful charge therefor or to avoid payment of the lawful charge for such service that has been rendered to such person, obtains such service or avoids payment therefor by force, intimidation, stealth, deception or mechanical tampering, or by unjustifiable failure or refusal to pay, shall have committed an infraction.
(P.A. 14-199, S. 3.)