NYSentencing

§ 170.65 Forgery of a vehicle identification number.
  A person is guilty of forgery of a vehicle identification number when:
  (1)   He knowingly destroys, covers, defaces, alters or otherwise changes
the form or appearance of a vehicle identification number on any vehicle or
component part thereof, except tires; or
  (2)     He  removes  any  such  number  from  a vehicle or component part
thereof, except as required by the provisions of the  vehicle  and  traffic
law; or
  (3)    He affixes a vehicle identification number to a vehicle, except in
accordance with the provisions of the vehicle and traffic law; or 
  (4)    He or she, with intent to defraud, knowingly manufactures, produc-
es  or  reproduces  a vehicle identification number label, sticker or plate
which  was  not  manufactured,  produced  or  reproduced in accordance with
the  rules  and regulations  promulgated  by  the  United  States  National
Highway  Safety  Administration  and/or  in  accordance with the provisions
of the state vehicle and traffic law.
  Forgery of a vehicle identification number is a class E felony.
with Argument