Any person who forges or, without authority, signs any evidence of financial responsibility or who files or offers for filing any such evidence knowing or having reason to believe that it is forged or signed without authority shall be fined not more than one thousand dollars ($1,000) or imprisoned for not more than one year or both.
History: 1953 Comp., § 64-5-245, enacted by Laws 1978, ch. 35, § 321; 1978 Comp., § 66-5-245, recompiled as 1978 Comp., § 66-5-231 by Laws 1983, ch. 318, § 30.
Recompilations. — Laws 1983, ch. 318, § 41, recompiled former 66-5-231 NMSA 1978, relating to drivers exclusion endorsement form, as 66-5-222 NMSA 1978, effective January 1, 1984.
Meaning of "forges". — The word "forges", means that defendant actually altered the document, as opposed to having knowingly presented an altered document without having altered it himself. State v. Morrison, 1999-NMCA-041, 127 N.M. 63, 976 P.2d 1015.
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