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Code · Pennsylvania · Title 30 — FISH · Chapter 53

§ 5326. Offenses relating to titling.

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§ 5326. Offenses relating to titling.
(a)Prohibited acts.-- The following acts are prohibited:
(1)Operating a boat in this Commonwealth for which a certificate of title is required without having obtained the certificate of title for the boat.
(2)Selling, transferring or otherwise disposing of a boat without delivering to the purchaser or transferee a certificate of title, or a manufacturer's or importer's certificate, assigned to the purchaser or transferee as required by this subchapter.
(3)Failing to surrender to the commission any certificate of title upon cancellation of the same by the commission for any valid reason set forth in this subchapter or regulations adopted under this subchapter.
(4)Altering or forging any certificate of title to a boat or any assignment thereof or any cancellation of any lien on a boat.
(5)Altering, forging or counterfeiting any certificate of title or a manufacturer's or importer's certificate to a boat.
(6)Altering or falsifying any assignment of a certificate of title or an assignment or cancellation of a security interest on a certificate of title of a boat.
(7)Holding or using a certificate of title to a boat or holding or using any assignment or cancellation of a security interest on a certificate of title to a boat, knowing it to have been altered, forged, counterfeited or falsified.
(8)Using a false or fictitious name or address, making any material false statement or concealing any material fact in any application for a certificate of title or in a bill of sale or sworn statement of ownership.
(9)Procuring or attempting to procure a certificate of title to a boat or passing or attempting to pass a certificate of title or any assignment thereof to a boat, knowing or having reason to believe that the boat has been stolen.
(10)Possessing, buying, receiving, selling or offering to sell or otherwise disposing of a boat on which the manufacturer's or assigned hull identification number has been destroyed, removed, covered, altered or defaced, knowing of such destruction, removal, covering, alteration or defacement of the manufacturer's or assigned hull identification number.
(11)Destroying, removing, covering, altering or defacing the manufacturer's assigned hull identification number on any boat.
(12)Possessing, buying, selling, exchanging or giving away or offering to buy, sell, exchange or give away the certificate of title to any boat which is junked or salvaged.
(13)Knowingly obtaining goods, services, credit or money by means of a certificate of title to a boat, which certificate is required by law to be surrendered to the commission.
(b)Penalties.-- A person who violates subsection (a)(1) through
(3)commits a summary offense of the second degree. A person who violates subsection (a)(4) through
(13)commits a misdemeanor of the third degree.
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