HF 2842

as introduced - 80th Legislature (1997 - 1998) Posted on 12/15/2009 12:00am

  1.1                          A bill for an act 
  1.2             relating to motor vehicles; prohibiting display of 
  1.3             license plate bearing illegally obtained tab or 
  1.4             sticker; amending Minnesota Statutes 1996, section 
  1.5             168.10, subdivision 3. 
  1.6   BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
  1.7      Section 1.  Minnesota Statutes 1996, section 168.10, 
  1.8   subdivision 3, is amended to read: 
  1.9      Subd. 3.  [OFFENSES.] It shall be unlawful for any person: 
  1.10     (1) to display or cause to be displayed or to possess any 
  1.11  canceled, revoked, suspended or fraudulently obtained or stolen 
  1.12  registration plates plate, or any registration plate that bears 
  1.13  a fraudulently obtained or stolen tab or sticker; 
  1.14     (2) to lend the person's registration plates to another or 
  1.15  knowingly to permit the use thereof by another; 
  1.16     (3) to display or represent as the person's own any 
  1.17  registration plates not issued to that person; provided, 
  1.18  however, this shall not apply to any legal change of ownership 
  1.19  of the motor vehicle to which the plates are attached, nor shall 
  1.20  this apply to any transfer of collector plates under subdivision 
  1.21  1i; 
  1.22     (4) to fail or refuse to surrender to the department upon 
  1.23  its lawful demand any registration plates which have been 
  1.24  revoked, canceled, or suspended by proper authority; 
  1.25     (5) to use a false or fictitious name or address or 
  2.1   description of the motor vehicle, identification number, or 
  2.2   serial number in any application for registration of a motor 
  2.3   vehicle or to knowingly make a false statement or to knowingly 
  2.4   conceal a material fact or otherwise commit a fraud in any such 
  2.5   application; 
  2.6      (6) to destroy, alter, remove, cover or deface the 
  2.7   identification or serial number of any motor vehicle or to 
  2.8   knowingly operate any motor vehicle the identification or serial 
  2.9   number of which has been destroyed, altered, removed, covered or 
  2.10  defaced without first making application for assignment of a 
  2.11  special identification number as provided by law. 
  2.12     Sec. 2.  [EFFECTIVE DATE.] 
  2.13     Section 1 is effective August 1, 1998, and applies to 
  2.14  offenses committed on or after that date.