2006 New York Code - Sale Of Motor Vehicle, Trailer Or Part Thereof With Changed Identification Number.

 
    § 421. Sale  of  motor  vehicle,  trailer or part thereof with changed
  identification number. 1. Any person engaged in the business  of  buying
  or selling motor vehicles, trailers, or parts thereof, shall be presumed
  to  have  determined  and  to  know  the original vehicle identification
  numbers  and  special  identification  numbers  on  any  motor  vehicle,
  trailers  or parts thereof purchased or sold by such person, both at the
  time of purchase and sale.
    2. Any person engaged in the  business  of  buying  or  selling  motor
  vehicles,  trailers,  or  parts  thereof, who sells or offers for sale a
  motor  vehicle,  trailer,  or  part  thereof,   the   original   vehicle
  identification  number  or  special identification number of which shall
  have been destroyed, removed, altered, defaced or so covered  as  to  be
  effectually   concealed,   without   having  complied  with  regulations
  promulgated by the commissioner, shall be guilty of a class E felony.
    3. Any person, other than a person engaged in the business  of  buying
  or  selling  motor  vehicles,  trailers, or parts thereof, who knowingly
  sells or offers for sale a motor vehicle, trailer, or part thereof,  the
  original  vehicle identification number or special identification number
  of which shall have been destroyed,  removed,  altered,  defaced  or  so
  covered  as  to  be  effectually  concealed shall be guilty of a class E
  felony. In any prosecution under this subdivision, the purchase  of  the
  motor  vehicle,  trailer  or  part  from a dealer registered pursuant to
  section four hundred fifteen  of  this  chapter,  a  vehicle  dismantler
  registered  pursuant  to section four hundred fifteen-a of this chapter,
  or a motor vehicle repair shop  registered  pursuant  to  section  three
  hundred  ninety-eight-c  of  this  chapter shall be presumptive evidence
  that the purchaser did not have knowledge of the  destruction,  removal,
  alteration,  defacing or covering of the original vehicle identification
  number or special identification number.
    4. For the purposes of this article, the term "original identification
  number" shall mean any number embossed, engraved, etched, affixed  to  a
  label,  sticker  or  plate  or  similarly  marked on any part of a motor
  vehicle, trailer or vehicle part which is assigned by  the  manufacturer
  for  the  purpose  of  identification  of that particular motor vehicle,
  trailer or vehicle part  and  the  location  of  which  number  is  made
  available to the public.