2011 Vermont Code
Title 23 Motor Vehicles
Chapter 21 TITLE TO MOTOR VEHICLES
§ 2082 Altering, forging or counterfeiting certificates
§ 2082. Altering, forging or counterfeiting certificates
A person who, with fraudulent intent:
(1) Alters, forges, counterfeits or knowingly makes or causes to be made a false official certificate of title;
(2) Alters or forges an assignment of a certificate of title, or an assignment or release of a security interest, on a certificate of title or a form the commissioner prescribes;
(3) Has possession of or uses a certificate of title knowing it to have been altered, forged, counterfeited or fraudulently obtained or made; or
(4) Uses a false or fictitious name or address, or makes a material false statement, or fails to disclose a security interest, or conceals any other material fact in or alters information on or forges a signature on an application for a certificate of title or duplicate certificate of title, shall be fined not less than $500.00 or more than $5,000.00 or be imprisoned not less than one year or more than five years or be both fined and imprisoned. (Added 1969, No. 297 (Adj. Sess.), { 2, eff. Sept. 1, 1971; amended 1991, No. 164 (Adj. Sess.), { 11; 2001, No. 69, { 7.)
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