2C:21-17.2 Use of personal identifying information of another, certain; second degree crime.
5. a.
A person is guilty of a crime of the second degree if, in obtaining or
attempting to obtain a drivers license, birth certificate or other
document issued by a governmental agency which could be used as a means
of verifying a persons identity, age or any other personal identifying
information, that person knowingly exhibits, displays or utters a
document or other writing which falsely purports to be a drivers
license, birth certificate or other document issued by a governmental
agency or which belongs or pertains to a person other than the person
who possesses the document.
b.Notwithstanding
the provisions of N.J.S.2C:1-8 or any other law, a conviction under
this section shall not merge with a conviction of any other criminal
offense, nor shall such other conviction merge with a conviction under
this section, and the court shall impose separate sentences upon each
violation of this section and any other criminal offense.
c.A
violation of N.J.S.2C:28-7, constituting a disorderly persons offense,
section 1 of P.L.1979, c.264 (C.2C:33-15), R.S.33:1-81 or section 6 of
P.L.1968, c.313 (C.33:1-81.7) in a case where the person uses the
personal identifying information of another to illegally purchase an
alcoholic beverage or for using the personal identifying information of
another to misrepresent his age for the purpose of obtaining tobacco or
other consumer product denied to persons under 18 years of age shall not
constitute an offense under this section if the actor received only
that benefit or service and did not perpetrate or attempt to perpetrate
any additional injury or fraud on another.
L.2003,c.184,s.5; amended 2005, c.224, s.4.
