(A) (1) No person shall acquire, for the purpose of sale or resale, sell or offer for sale, rent, lease or trade any machine or electrical or mechanical device or apparatus, farm tractor, hay baler, combine, corn picker or other farm machine, except a motor vehicle as defined in Ohio R.C. 4501.01, from which the manufacturer's or brand name or serial number has been removed, covered, altered, changed, defaced, destroyed or obliterated for the purpose of concealing the identity thereof.
(2) This section shall not prevent the sale of any machine which, at the time of sale, resale or offer for sale, or at the time of rental, lease or trade, has been owned and used by any person at least six months prior to the sale, provided that such person establishes to the satisfaction of the Chief of Police or his or her authorized representative that he or she has in fact owned such item for at least such period.
(B) Whoever violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the third degree.
(‘82 Code, § 642.30) Penalty, see § 698.02