2009 Iowa Code
Title 8 - Transportation
Subtitle 2 - Vehicles
CHAPTER 321 - MOTOR VEHICLES AND LAW OF THE ROAD
321.92 - ALTERING OR CHANGING NUMBERS.

        321.92  ALTERING OR CHANGING NUMBERS.
         1.  Fraudulent intent.
         a.  No person shall with fraudulent intent, deface, destroy,
      or alter the vehicle identification number or component part number
      or other distinguishing number or identification mark of a vehicle or
      component part, including a rebuilt identification, nor shall a
      person place or stamp a serial, engine, or other number or mark upon
      a vehicle or component part, except one assigned thereto by the
      department.
         b.  The year of manufacture of a fence-line feeder, grain
      cart, or tank wagon manufactured on or after July 1, 2001, shall be
      permanently made a part of the identification plate on the vehicle.
      A person shall not fraudulently alter, deface, or attempt to
      fraudulently alter or deface the year of manufacture or other product
      identification number on a fence-line feeder, grain cart, or tank
      wagon.
         c.  A violation of this subsection is a felony punishable as
      provided in section 321.483.
         d.  This subsection does not prohibit the restoration of an
      original vehicle identification number, component part number, or
      other number or mark when the restoration is made by the department,
      nor prevent a manufacturer from placing, in the ordinary course of
      business, numbers or marks upon vehicles or component parts.
         2.  Vehicles without identification numbers.  A person who
      knowingly buys, receives, disposes of, sells, offers for sale, or has
      in the person's possession a vehicle, or a component part of a
      vehicle, from which the vehicle identification number, rebuilt
      identification, or component part number has been removed, defaced,
      covered, altered, or destroyed for the purpose of concealing or
      misrepresenting the identity of the vehicle or component part is
      guilty of a simple misdemeanor.  

         Section History: Early Form

         [SS15, § 1571-m12a; C24, 27, 31, 35, § 5080; C39, § 5006.09,
      5006.21; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, § 321.80, 321.92;
      C79, 81, § 321.92] 

         Section History: Recent Form

         88 Acts, ch 1089, §7; 2009 Acts, ch 133, §117
         Referred to in § 322.6, 322C.6
         Similar provisions, § 714.8(5)