Assignment of Motor Number or Special Identifying Number

The Department of Revenue and Taxation shall assign a distinguishing motor number to the motor in a motor vehicle or a special identifying number to a vehicle whenever the motor or other identifying number thereon is destroyed or obliterated.

(a)A special identifying number shall also be assigned to any vehicle subject to registration under this Title, and which has no identifying number.

(b)Any vehicle to which a distinguishing motor number or other special identifying number is assigned shall be registered under the number so assigned when registration of the vehicle is required.

(1)No vehicle to which a distinguishing motor number or other special identifying number has been assigned shall be registered unless it bears such number.

(2)No person shall drive, move, or use, nor shall any owner knowingly permit to be driven, moved, or used, upon a highway any vehicle to which a distinguishing motor number or other special identifying number has been assigned unless it bears such number.