S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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I N A S S E M B L Y
May 28, 2014
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Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Gantt) --
(at request of the Division of Homeland Security and Emergency
Services) -- read once and referred to the Committee on Transportation
AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to equipping
vehicles with radio devices
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Section 397 of the vehicle and traffic law, as amended by
chapter 843 of the laws of 1980, is amended to read as follows:
S 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 knowing-
ly interferes with the transmission of radio messages by the police
without having first secured a permit so to do from the person author-
ized 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, OR PROHIBIT ANY AUTHORIZED PERSON EMPLOYED BY
THE DIVISION OF HOMELAND SECURITY AND EMERGENCY SERVICES FROM EQUIPPING
A VEHICLE WITH AN AUTHORIZED, STATE-ISSUED AFFIXED, MOBILE OR PORTABLE
RADIO APPARATUS CAPABLE OF TRANSMITTING OR RECEIVING SIGNALS ON THE
FREQUENCIES ALLOCATED FOR POLICE USE OR USING A MOTOR VEHICLE SO
EQUIPPED.
S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
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