N.Y. Vehicle & Traffic Law § 397: Equipping motor vehicles with radio receiving sets capable of receiving signals on the frequencies allocated for police use

§ 397. Equipping motor vehicles with radio receiving sets capable of

receiving signals on the frequencies allocated for police use. A

person, not a police officer or peace officer, acting pursuant to his

special duties, who equips a motor vehicle with a radio receiving set

capable of receiving signals on the frequencies allocated for police use

or knowingly uses a motor vehicle so equipped or who in any way

knowingly interferes with the transmission of radio messages by the

police without having first secured a permit so to do from the person

authorized to issue such a permit by the local governing body or board

of the city, town or village in which such person resides, or where such

person resides outside of a city or village in a county having a county

police department by the board of supervisors of such county, is guilty

of a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine not exceeding one thousand

dollars, or imprisonment not exceeding six months, or both. Nothing in

this section contained shall be construed to apply to any person who

holds a valid amateur radio operator's license issued by the federal

communications commission and who operates a duly licensed portable

mobile transmitter and in connection therewith a receiver or receiving

set on frequencies exclusively allocated by the federal communications

commission to duly licensed radio amateurs.