N.Y. Vehicle & Traffic Law § 132-a: Police vehicle

§ 132-a. Police vehicle. Every vehicle owned by the state, a public

authority, a county, town, city or village, and operated by the police

department or law enforcement agency of such governmental unit or by a

constable or police constable of a town when acting pursuant to his

special duties. Any other vehicle operated by a chief or deputy or

assistant chief of a police department, a sheriff, undersheriff or

regular deputy sheriff, and a vehicle owned and operated by the law

enforcement unit of a public or private corporation authorized by law to

maintain a unit for the enforcement of law on the property of such

corporation shall be a police vehicle only for the purposes of section

one hundred one of this chapter.