§ 26-5. Violations involving registration plates or serial numbers on motor vehicles.

No person shall:

(1)

Display, or cause to be displayed, or have in possession any canceled, revoked, suspended or fraudulently obtained or stolen registration plates;

(2)

Lend the person's registration plates to any other person or knowingly permit the use of such registration plates by another;

(3)

Display or represent as one's own any registration plates not issued to that person. This shall not apply to any legal change of ownership of the motor vehicle to which the plates are attached;

(4)

Destroy, alter, remove, cover or deface the identification or serial number of any motor vehicle or knowingly operate any motor vehicle when its identification or serial number has been destroyed, altered, removed, covered or defaced without first making application for assignment of a special identification number, as provided by this Code or state law; or

(5)

Alter or deface a temporary vehicle permit issued under Minn. Stats. § 168.090, 168.091 or 168.092.

(Code 1970; Code 1992, § 1400.05; Ord. No. 1401; Ord. No. 1401-A1, 5-1-1974; Ord. No. 1401-A2, 3-24-1976; Ord. No. 1401-A3, 5-12-1976; Ord. No. 1401-A4, 11-24-1976; Ord. No. 1401-A5, 3-5-1980; Ord. No. 1401-A6, 8-5-1981; Ord. No. 1401-A7, 4-28-1982; Ord. No. 613, 5-16-1990; Ord. No. 2000-7, 7-5-2000; Ord. No. 2011-19, 12-6-2011; Ord. No. 2012-11, 5-1-2012)