2133 - Forged insurance identification cards.

§  2133. Forged insurance identification cards. Any insurance company,  insurance  agent,  insurance  broker  or  other  person  who  or  which,  personally  or  by  the  action  of  an  employee  or  agent, possesses,  transfers or uses a forged insurance identification  card  for  a  motor  vehicle, having knowledge, personally or through such employee or agent,  of  the  fact  that such insurance identification card, when issued, did  not actually represent an owner's policy of  liability  insurance  or  a  financial  security  bond  issued by an insurance company licensed to do  business in this state covering the motor  vehicle  identified  on  such  card, shall be liable for payment to the people of this state of a civil  penalty  in  a sum not exceeding one thousand dollars for the first such  violation and a  sum  not  exceeding  five  thousand  dollars  for  each  subsequent  violation. For the purposes of this section the term "forged  insurance identification card" means a written insurance  identification  card  which  has  been  falsely made, completed or altered, and the term  "falsely made, completed or altered" shall have the same meaning as  set  forth in section 170.00 of the penal law.