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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>69241</law_id><section_number>46.2-605</section_number><catch_line>Altering or forging certificate of title, salvage/nonrepairable certificate, or registration card; penalty</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>46.2-602.4</reference></referred_to_by><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="46.2">Motor Vehicles</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="II">Titling, Registration and Licensure</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="6">Titling and Registration of Motor Vehicles</unit><unit label="article" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="1">Titling and Registration, Generally</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>Any person who (i) with fraudulent <span class="dictionary">intent</span> alters any certificate of title, salvage/nonrepairable certificate, or registration card issued by the <span class="dictionary">Department</span> or by any other state, (ii) with fraudulent <span class="dictionary">intent</span>, makes a false statement on any application for a certificate of title, salvage/nonrepairable certificate, or registration card issued by the <span class="dictionary">Department</span> or any other state, (iii) forges or counterfeits any certificate of title, salvage/nonrepairable certificate, or registration card purporting to have been issued by the <span class="dictionary">Department</span> under the provisions of this title or by any other state under a similar <span class="dictionary">law</span> or <span class="dictionary">laws</span> or, with fraudulent <span class="dictionary">intent</span>, alters or falsifies, or forges any assignment of title, or salvage/nonrepairable certificate, (iv) holds or uses any certificate, registration card, or assignment, knowing the same to have been altered, forged, or falsified, shall be guilty of a Class 6 <span class="dictionary">felony</span>.
		It shall be unlawful for any person to conspire with any other person to violate the provisions of this section.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 46-12; 1958, c. 541, &#xA7; 46.1-85; 1986, c. 490; 1989, c. 727; 1996, cc. 591, 917.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
