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321.216 Unlawful use of license---penalty.

It is a simple misdemeanor for any person:

1. To display or cause or permit to be displayed or have in the person's possession a canceled, revoked, suspended, fictitious, or fraudulently altered motor vehicle license.

2. To lend that person's motor vehicle license to another person or knowingly permit the use of the license by another.

3. To display or represent as one's own a motor vehicle license not issued to that person.

4. To fail or refuse to surrender to the department upon its lawful demand a motor vehicle license which has been suspended, revoked, or canceled.

5. To use a false or fictitious name in an application for a motor vehicle license or to knowingly make a false statement or to knowingly conceal a material fact or otherwise commit a fraud in the application.

6. To permit an unlawful use of a motor vehicle license issued to that person.

7. To obtain, possess or have in one's control or on one's premises blank motor vehicle license forms.

8. To obtain, possess, or have in one's control or on one's premises a motor vehicle license, a nonoperator's identification card, or a blank motor vehicle license form, which has been made by a person having no authority or right to make the license, card, or form.

Section History: Early form

[C31, 35, § 4960-d46, -d52; C39, § 5015.01; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 321.216]

Section History: Recent form

89 Acts, ch 84, §1; 90 Acts, ch 1230, § 59

Internal References

Referred to in § 123.48, 805.8(2u)


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