Iowa Code 321.100 – False evidences of registration
Current as of: 2023 | Check for updates
|
Other versions
It is a fraudulent practice for any person to commit any of the following acts:
1. To alter with a fraudulent intent any certificate of title, manufacturer‘s or importer’s certificate, registration card, registration plate, manufacturer’s vehicle identification plate, or permit issued by the department or county treasurer.
Terms Used In Iowa Code 321.100
- Department: means the state department of transportation. See Iowa Code 321H.2
- following: when used by way of reference to a chapter or other part of a statute mean the next preceding or next following chapter or other part. See Iowa Code 4.1
- Manufacturer: means a person engaged in the business of constructing or assembling all-terrain vehicles required to be registered under this chapter and who has an established place of business for that purpose in this state. See Iowa Code 321I.1
- Person: includes any individual, firm, corporation, partnership, joint adventure, or association, and the plural as well as the singular number. See Iowa Code 321H.2
- Vehicle: means any vehicle as defined in chapter 321. See Iowa Code 321H.2
2. To forge or counterfeit any such document or plate.
3. To hold or use any such document or plate knowing the same to have been so altered, forged, or falsified.
4. To hold or use any certificate of title, manufacturer’s or importer’s certificate, registration card, registration plate, manufacturer’s vehicle identification plate, or permit issued by the department or county treasurer, for any vehicle to which such document or plate is not legally assigned.
5. To transfer in any manner or to offer to transfer in any manner a certificate of title, manufacturer’s or importer’s certificate to any vehicle on which a salvage certificate of title or junking certificate is required under section 321.52, with knowledge or reason to believe that the certificate will be used for a vehicle other than the vehicle for which the certificate is issued. “Transfer” for the purposes of this subsection means to sell, exchange, change possession or ownership or convey in any manner.