(1) A person commits the offense of trafficking in vehicles with destroyed or altered identification numbers if the person knowingly buys, sells, receives, disposes of, conceals or has in the person’s possession any vehicle or component from which the vehicle identification number has been removed, defaced, covered, altered or destroyed for the purpose of concealing or misrepresenting the identity of the vehicle or component.
(2) The offense described in this section, trafficking in vehicles with destroyed or altered identification numbers, is a Class A misdemeanor. [1983 c.338 §296]