2010 Pennsylvania Code
Title 18 - CRIMES AND OFFENSES
Chapter 41 - Forgery and Fraudulent Practices
4104 - Tampering with records or identification.

     § 4104.  Tampering with records or identification.
        (a)  Writings.--A person commits a misdemeanor of the first
     degree if, knowing that he has no privilege to do so, he
     falsifies, destroys, removes or conceals any writing or record,
     or distinguishing mark or brand or other identification with
     intent to deceive or injure anyone or to conceal any wrongdoing.
        (b)  Personal property.--A person commits a summary offense
     if he knowingly buys, sells or moves in commerce any personal
     property from which the manufacturer's name plate, serial number
     or any other distinguishing number or identification mark has
     been removed, defaced, covered, altered or destroyed unless the
     alterations have been customarily made or done as an established
     practice in the ordinary and regular conduct of business by the
     original manufacturer or under specific authorization and
     direction from the original manufacturer. Personal property as
     set forth in this subsection shall not include firearms, motor
     vehicles or insurance company salvage recoveries.
        (c)  Innocent alterations.--If property subject to the
     provisions of this section has had its identifying marks defaced
     or eliminated innocently and is in the possession of its
     rightful owner, the owner may, notwithstanding the provisions of
     subsection (a) or (b), dispose of the property by sale or
     otherwise if he delivers to the acquirer a notarized statement
     that the property was innocently altered and that the person
     disposing of it is its rightful owner.
     (Nov. 26, 1978, P.L.1316, No.319, eff. Jan. 1, 1979)