N.Y. Vehicle & Traffic Law § 105-a: Car carrier

§ 105-a. Car carrier. A truck that is designed to carry one to three

motor vehicles on a flat platform that slides or tilts to the ground to

facilitate loading and unloading of such motor vehicles and to tow an

additional motor vehicle behind it by the use of a wheel lift. For the

purposes of this chapter, whenever such car carrier tows or carries a

disabled, illegally parked or abandoned motor vehicle or a motor vehicle

involved in an accident, such car carrier shall be deemed to be a tow

truck and shall comply with all provisions of this chapter, and any

other law, ordinance, order, rule and regulation, applicable to tow

trucks.