N.Y. Vehicle & Traffic Law § 308: Definitions

§ 308. Definitions. As used in this article the term "motor vehicle"

shall include trailers and all vehicles included in the definition of

the term "motor vehicle" contained in section one hundred twenty-five of

this chapter except the following:

1. Road rollers, tractor cranes, truck cranes, power shovels, road

building machines, snow plows, road sweepers, sand spreaders, well

drillers, well servicing rigs, feed processing machines, mobile car

crushers, earth movers, trucks with small wheels used in a factory,

warehouse or railroad station, agricultural spreaders and sprayers, or a

tractor-trailer combination designed and used exclusively for the same

purpose as a vehicle specifically included in the foregoing, or

2. Vehicles inspected by or operating under a certificate of

inspection authorized by the commissioner of transportation or the

interstate commerce commission, or of a municipally owned and operated

transit system, or

3. Farm vehicles registered under subdivision thirteen of section four

hundred one of this chapter, self-propelled combines, self-propelled

corn and hay harvesting machines and tractors used exclusively for

agricultural purposes, or

4. Vehicles subject to inspection and licensing by local authorities

provided such inspection by such local authorities conforms with the

standards established by the commissioner under this article, or

5. Fire vehicles, except ambulances; or

6. Police vehicles for which the department operating such vehicles

has submitted a plan approved by the commissioner, who shall establish

the standards therefor, for periodic inspection thereof. Such plans

shall be submitted to the commissioner by September thirtieth of each

year. In determining the acceptability of such inspection plans and in

establishing standards therefor, the commissioner shall require that

such periodic inspections shall be substantially equivalent to

inspections required for other motor vehicles under this article and

shall be made with respect to such mechanisms and equipment as shall be

determined by the commissioner to be necessary for the proper and safe

operation of such vehicles.