N.Y. Vehicle & Traffic Law § 115-a: Fire vehicle

§ 115-a. Fire vehicle. Every vehicle operated for fire service

purposes owned and identified as being owned by the state, a public

authority, a county, town, city, village or fire district, or a fire

corporation subject to the provisions of subdivision (e) of section

fourteen hundred two of the not-for-profit corporation law or a fire

company as defined in section one hundred of the general municipal law.

Any of the following vehicles shall be fire vehicles only for the

purpose of section one hundred one of this chapter: 1. a vehicle

operated by officials of the office of fire prevention and control,

2. a vehicle ordinarily operated by a chief or assistant chief of a

fire department, or a county or deputy county fire coordinator, or

county or assistant county fire marshall, or town or assistant town fire

coordinator, or such vehicle when operated in an official capacity by or

under the direction of such person, and

3. a vehicle specially designed and equipped for firefighting purposes

which is regularly used for firefighting purposes by a firefighting unit

on property used for industrial, institutional or commercial purposes

and which vehicle is owned by the owner or lessee of such property.