                 TITLE 18--CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
 
                             PART I--CRIMES
 
                      CHAPTER 113--STOLEN PROPERTY
 
Sec. 2321. Trafficking in certain motor vehicles or motor 
        vehicle parts
        
    (a) Whoever buys, receives, possesses, or obtains control of, with 
intent to sell or otherwise dispose of, a motor vehicle or motor vehicle 
part, knowing that an identification number for such motor vehicle or 
part has been removed, obliterated, tampered with, or altered, shall be 
fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both.
    (b) Subsection (a) does not apply if the removal, obliteration, 
tampering, or alteration--
        (1) is caused by collision or fire; or
        (2) is not a violation of section 511 of this title.

    (c) As used in this section, the terms ``identification number'' and 
``motor vehicle'' have the meaning given those terms in section 511 of 
this title.

(Added Pub. L. 98-547, title II, Sec. 204(a), Oct. 25, 1984, 98 Stat. 
2770, Sec. 2320; renumbered Sec. 2321, Pub. L. 99-646, Sec. 42(a), Nov. 
10, 1986, 100 Stat. 3601; amended Pub. L. 103-322, title XXXIII, 
Sec. 330016(1)(N), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2148.)


                               Amendments

    1994--Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 103-322 substituted ``fined under this 
title'' for ``fined not more than $20,000''.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 1961, 2516 of this title.
