2004 Minnesota Statutes

     360.67 Violations and penalties.  

    Subdivision 1.    Tax evasion.  Any person who, with 
 intent to escape payment of any tax on an aircraft as provided 
 in sections 360.54 to 360.67, delays or neglects to properly 
 list and apply to register the same, or, with intent to prevent 
 the payment or collection of the proper tax, fee, or lien 
 thereon, violates or neglects to comply with any of the 
 provisions thereof shall be guilty of a gross misdemeanor.  

    Subd. 2.    Unlawful operation.  Any person who uses, or 
 causes to be used or operated, any aircraft in violation of the 
 provisions of sections 360.54 to 360.67, or while a certificate 
 of registration of an aircraft issued to the person is suspended 
 or revoked, or knowingly delivers an aircraft to another to be 
 used or operated in violation of sections 360.54 to 360.67, or 
 violates any of the provisions thereof, shall be guilty of a 
 misdemeanor.  

    Subd. 3.    Sale of unregistered aircraft.  Any person 
 who sells, delivers, or otherwise transfers ownership of an 
 aircraft required to be registered as provided by sections 
 360.511 to 360.67 without having registered said aircraft as 
 required by sections 360.511 to 360.67 shall be guilty of a 
 misdemeanor. 

    Subd. 4.    Fraud.  Any person who: 

    (1) uses any number plates, label, or stamp or registration 
 certificate upon or in connection with any aircraft except the 
 one for which the same were duly issued, or upon any such 
 aircraft after the certificate, plates, label, or stamp or the 
 right to use the same have expired, or retains in possession or 
 fails to surrender as provided in sections 360.511 to 360.67 any 
 such number plates, label, stamp, or registration certificate; 

    (2) displays, or causes to be displayed, or has in 
 possession any canceled, revoked, suspended, or fraudulently 
 obtained or stolen registration plates, label, or stamp; 

    (3) lends the person's registration plates, label, or stamp 
 to any person or knowingly permits the use thereof by another; 

    (4) displays or represents as the person's own any 
 registration plates, label, or stamp not issued to the person; 
 provided, this shall not apply to any legal change of ownership 
 of the aircraft to which the plates, label, or stamp are 
 attached; 

    (5) uses a false or fictitious name or address or 
 description of the aircraft, engine number, or frame number in 
 any application for registration of an aircraft or knowingly 
 makes a false statement or knowingly conceals a material fact or 
 otherwise commits a fraud in any such application; or 

    (6) defaces or alters any registration certificate or 
 number plates or retains the same in possession after the same 
 have been defaced or altered, 

 shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. 

    HIST: 1945 c 411 s 17; 1949 c 161 s 15; 1986 c 444