N.Y. Vehicle & Traffic Law Section 397
Equipping motor vehicles with radio receiving sets capable of receiving signals on the frequencies allocated for police use

A person, not a police officer or peace officer, acting pursuant to his special duties, who equips a motor vehicle with a radio receiving set capable of receiving signals on the frequencies allocated for police use or knowingly uses a motor vehicle so equipped or who in any way knowingly interferes with the transmission of radio messages by the police without having first secured a permit so to do from the person authorized to issue such a permit by the local governing body or board of the city, town or village in which such person resides, or where such person resides outside of a city or village in a county having a county police department by the board of supervisors of such county, is guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars, or imprisonment not exceeding six months, or both. Nothing in this section contained shall be construed to apply to any person who holds a valid amateur radio operator’s license issued by the federal communications commission and who operates a duly licensed portable mobile transmitter and in connection therewith a receiver or receiving set on frequencies exclusively allocated by the federal communications commission to duly licensed radio amateurs.

Source: Section 397 — Equipping motor vehicles with radio receiving sets capable of receiving signals on the frequencies allocated for police use, https://www.­nysenate.­gov/legislation/laws/VAT/397 (updated Sep. 22, 2014; accessed Apr. 27, 2024).

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