§ 2082 - Altering, forging or counterfeiting certificates - Vermont Statutes

§ 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.)