Article 378 Federal Criminal Code

To whoever makes or alters without permission of the competent authority a plate, the sticker, the circulation card or the other official documents that are issued to identify motor vehicles or trailers, there shall be imposed from four to eight years of imprisonment and from three hundred to one thousand days fine.

The same penalties shall be imposed on whoever possesses, uses, acquires or alienates any of the objects referred to in the preceding paragraph, knowing that they are stolen, falsified or that they were improperly obtained.

Likewise, said penalties shall be imposed on whoever, knowingly, uses for a stolen vehicle or one that is illegally in the country, the plates, the sticker or the other official documents issued to identify another vehicle.