N.Y. Insurance Law § 2133: Forged insurance identification cards

§ 2133. Forged insurance identification cards. Any insurance company,

insurance agent, insurance broker or other person who or which,

personally or by the action of an employee or agent, possesses,

transfers or uses a forged insurance identification card for a motor

vehicle, having knowledge, personally or through such employee or agent,

of the fact that such insurance identification card, when issued, did

not actually represent an owner's policy of liability insurance or a

financial security bond issued by an insurance company licensed to do

business in this state covering the motor vehicle identified on such

card, shall be liable for payment to the people of this state of a civil

penalty in a sum not exceeding one thousand dollars for the first such

violation and a sum not exceeding five thousand dollars for each

subsequent violation. For the purposes of this section the term "forged

insurance identification card" means a written insurance identification

card which has been falsely made, completed or altered, and the term

"falsely made, completed or altered" shall have the same meaning as set

forth in section 170.00 of the penal law.