171.22 UNLAWFUL ACTS RELATING TO DRIVER'S LICENSE.

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Subdivision 1. Violations.

With regard to any driver's license, including a commercial driver's license, it shall be unlawful for any person:

(1)to display, cause or permit to be displayed, or have in possession, any fictitious or fraudulently altered driver's license or Minnesota identification card;

(2)to lend the person's driver's license or Minnesota identification card to any other person or knowingly permit the use thereof by another;

(3)to display or represent as one's own any driver's license or Minnesota identification card not issued to that person;

(4)to use a fictitious name or date of birth to any police officer or in any application for a driver's license or Minnesota identification card, or to knowingly make a false statement, or to knowingly conceal a material fact, or otherwise commit a fraud in any such application;

(5)to alter any driver's license or Minnesota identification card;

(6)to take any part of the driver's license examination for another or to permit another to take the examination for that person;

(7)to make a counterfeit driver's license or Minnesota identification card;

(8)to use the name and date of birth of another person to any police officer for the purpose of falsely identifying oneself to the police officer;

(9)to display as a valid driver's license any canceled, revoked, or suspended driver's license. A person whose driving privileges have been withdrawn may display a driver's license only for identification purposes; or

(10)to submit a false affidavit or statement to the department on the certification required under section 171.05, subdivision 2 , paragraph (a), clause (1), item (ii), subitem (C), to issue an instruction permit to a homeschool student.

Subd. 2. Penalties.

Any person who violates subdivision 1, clause

(7)or (8), is guilty of a gross misdemeanor. Any person who violates any other provision of subdivision 1 is guilty of a misdemeanor.