N.Y. Vehicle & Traffic Law § 125: Motor vehicles

§ 125. Motor vehicles. Every vehicle operated or driven upon a public

highway which is propelled by any power other than muscular power,

except (a) electrically-driven mobility assistance devices operated or

driven by a person with a disability, (a-1) electric personal assistive

mobility devices operated outside a city with a population of one

million or more, (b) vehicles which run only upon rails or tracks, (c)

snowmobiles as defined in article forty-seven of this chapter, (d) all

terrain vehicles as defined in article forty-eight-B of this chapter,

(e) bicycles with electric assist as defined in section one hundred

two-c of this article, and (f) electric scooters as defined in section

one hundred fourteen-e of this article. For the purposes of title four

of this chapter, the term motor vehicle shall exclude fire and police

vehicles other than ambulances. For the purposes of titles four and five

of this chapter the term motor vehicles shall exclude farm type tractors

and all terrain type vehicles used exclusively for agricultural

purposes, or for snow plowing, other than for hire, farm equipment,

including self-propelled machines used exclusively in growing,

harvesting or handling farm produce, and self-propelled caterpillar or

crawler-type equipment while being operated on the contract site.