55-5-111 - Buying, disposing of or possessing vehicle lacking serial or engine number a misdemeanor.
55-5-111. Buying, disposing of or possessing vehicle lacking serial or engine number a misdemeanor.
Any person who knowingly buys, receives, disposes of, sells, offers for sale, or has in that person's possession any motor vehicle, engine or transmission removed from a motor vehicle, from which the manufacturer's serial, engine or transmission number or other distinguishing number or identification mark or number placed thereon under assignment from the division has been removed, defaced, covered, altered or destroyed commits a Class A misdemeanor.
[Acts 1951, ch. 70, § 73 (Williams, § 5538.173); T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 59-506; Acts 1971, ch. 122, § 1; 1972, ch. 518, § 11; T.C.A., § 59-511; Acts 1989, ch. 591, § 113; 2000, ch. 941, § 3.]