Rutgers Law

New Jersey Statutes, Title: 2C, THE NEW JERSEY CODE OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE

    Chapter 21: Forgery and Related Offenses

      Section: 2C:21-4.9: Violations, penalties; temporary registration certificate, temporary license plate.

          3. a. Any person who knowingly produces, sells, offers, or exposes for sale a temporary registration certificate or temporary license plate obtained by providing false information to the Chief Administrator of the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission is guilty of a crime of the fourth degree.

b. Any person who exhibits or displays on a motor vehicle a temporary registration certificate or temporary license plate, knowing that the temporary registration certificate or temporary license plate was obtained by providing false information to the Chief Administrator of the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission, is guilty of a disorderly persons offense.

c. Any person who possesses a temporary registration certificate or temporary license plate, knowing that the temporary registration certificate or temporary license plate was obtained by providing false information to the Chief Administrator of the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission, is guilty of a petty disorderly persons offense.

d. Any person who knowingly produces, sells, offers, or exposes for sale a forged, altered, counterfeited, or simulated temporary registration certificate or temporary license plate that simulates a temporary registration certificate or license plate is guilty of a crime of the fourth degree.

e. Any person who exhibits or displays on a motor vehicle a falsely made, forged, altered, counterfeited, or simulated temporary registration certificate or temporary license plate, knowing that the temporary registration certificate or temporary license plate was falsely made, forged, altered, counterfeited or simulated, is guilty of a disorderly persons offense.

f. Any person who possesses a falsely made, forged, altered, counterfeited, or simulated temporary registration certificate or temporary license plate, knowing that the temporary registration certificate or temporary license plate was falsely made, forged, altered, counterfeited, or simulated, is guilty of a petty disorderly persons offense.

g. Nothing in this section shall be construed to preclude or limit the prosecution or conviction of any person for any other crime or offense.

h. The clerk of the court in which a conviction is rendered or any other person designated by the court shall, immediately upon entry, forward a certified copy of the conviction or a transcript to the chief administrator.

L.2023, c.285, s.3.

This section added to the Rutgers Database: 2024-06-14 13:49:46.

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