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§ 2083. Other offenses
(a) A person who:
(1) With fraudulent intent, permits another, who is not entitled, to use or have possession of a certificate of title;
(2) Willfully fails to mail or deliver a certificate of title or application for a certificate of title to the commissioner within 20 days after the transfer or creation or satisfaction of a security interest;
(3) Willfully fails to deliver to his or her transferee a certificate of title within 20 days after the transfer;
(4) Willfully and without authority signs a name other than his or her own on any title or inaccurately states or alters the chain of ownership or other information required on any title, or fails to return a certificate of title that has been fraudulently made, or has unauthorized possession of blank certificates of title or manufacturer's certificates of origin;
(5) Willfully violates any provision of this chapter, except as provided in subdivision (6) of this subsection or section 2082 of this title, shall be fined not more than $2,000.00, or imprisoned for not more than two years, or both; or
(6) Willfully represents as his or her own, or sells a motor vehicle or vessel on which he or she does not hold legal title to or is not authorized to sell or transfer the vehicle or vessel by the titleholder shall be fined not more than $5,000.00, or imprisoned for not more than five years, or both, for each offense.
(b) A person shall not willfully fail to deliver to his or her transferee a certificate of title within 10 days after the transfer. A person who violates this subsection commits a traffic violation and shall be assessed a civil penalty of not more than $1,000.00. (Added 1969, No. 297 (Adj. Sess.), § 2, eff. Sept. 1, 1971; amended 1991, No. 164 (Adj. Sess.), § 12; 2001, No. 69, § 8; 2009, No. 39, § 6.)
