301.400. Removal or defacing manufacturer's numbers--penalty. - Missouri Statutes

Removal or defacing manufacturer's numbers--penalty.

301.400. Any person who removes, covers, alters or defaces,or causes to be destroyed, removed, covered, altered or defaced,the manufacturer's number, the motor number or otherdistinguishing number on any motor vehicle, or number or otherdistinguishing number on any motor vehicle tire, piece of farmmachinery, farm implement, or piece of construction equipment,the property of another, for any reason, shall be deemed guiltyof a class C felony.

(RSMo 1939 §§ 8396, 8404, A. 1949 S.B. 1110, A.L. 1982 H.B. 1454, et al.)

Prior revisions: 1929 §§ 7781, 7786; 1919 §§ 7608, 7609

(1967) The number on the transmission is a distinguishing manufacturer's number within the meaning of this section. State v. Friedman (Mo.), 412 S.W.2d 171.