NYSentencing

§ 170.70 Illegal possession of a vehicle identification number.
  A  person  is guilty of illegal possession of a vehicle identification
number when:
  (1)  He  knowingly  possesses  a  vehicle identification number label,
sticker or plate which has been removed from the vehicle or vehicle part
to which such label, sticker or plate was affixed by the manufacturer in
accordance  with  the  provisions  of  the  federal  motor  vehicle  and
information  cost  savings  act  (49  U.S.C. section  32101, et seq.) and
regulations promulgated thereunder or in accordance with the  provisions
of the vehicle and traffic law; or
  (2)  He  knowingly  possesses  a  vehicle  or vehicle part to which is
attached a vehicle identification number label, sticker or plate  or  on
which  is  stamped or embossed a vehicle identification number which has
been destroyed, covered, defaced, altered or  otherwise  changed,  or  a
vehicle  or  vehicle  part  from  which  a vehicle identification number
label, sticker or plate has been removed, which label, sticker or  plate
was  affixed  in  accordance  with  the  provisions of the federal motor
vehicle and information cost savings act (49  U.S.C. section  32101,  et
seq.) or regulations promulgated thereunder, except when he has complied
with the provisions of the  vehicle  and  traffic  law  and  regulations
promulgated thereunder; or
  (3) He knowingly possesses a vehicle, or part of a vehicle to which by
law or regulation must be  attached  a  vehicle  identification  number,
either (a) with a vehicle identification number label, sticker, or plate
which was not  affixed  by  the  manufacturer  in  accordance  with  the
provisions of the federal motor vehicle and information cost savings act
(49  U.S.C. section  32101, et seq.) or regulations promulgated thereunder,
or  in  accordance with the provisions of the vehicle and traffic law or
regulations promulgated thereunder, or (b) on which is affixed,  stamped
or  embossed  a  vehicle  identification  number  which was not affixed,
stamped or embossed by the  manufacturer,  or  in  accordance  with  the
provisions of the federal motor vehicle and information cost savings act
(49  U.S.C. section  32101, et seq.) or regulations promulgated  thereunder
or  in  accordance with the provisions of the vehicle and traffic law or
regulations promulgated thereunder.
  Illegal  possession  of  a  vehicle identification number is a class E
felony.
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