Legislation has been used to increase the quantity of fines and increase the optimal sentence for creating, counterfeiting, or altering, or utilizing a forged, counterfeited, or modified driver's license. This Site and 5041 would amend the Michigan Car Code and Code of Criminal Procedure, respectively, to increase the penalties for counterfeiting or forging a motorist's license.
The costs would take impact April 1, 2002. Specifically, the costs would make the following changes: House Bill 4037 would change the Michigan Lorry Code (MCL 257. 310) to increase and develop graduated penalties for forging, counterfeiting, or changing a driver's license, the license photo, or electronic data consisted of on a license.
If the intent of the recreation, change, counterfeiting, forging, duplication, or usage was to devote or help in the commission of an offense that is a felony punishable by imprisonment for less than 10 years or a misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment for more than 92 days, the person would be guilty of felony punishable by jail time for not more than five years or a fine of not more than $10,000, or both.
An individual who offered, or who possessed with the intent to provide to another, a recreated, changed, counterfeited, forged, or duplicated license photograph, negative of the photograph, image, license, or electronic data contained on a license or part of a license would be guilty of a felony punishable by imprisonment for not more than five years or a fine of not more than $10,000, or both.