2006 New York Code - Fire Vehicle.

 
    § 115-a. Fire  vehicle.    Every  vehicle  operated  for  fire service
  purposes owned and identified as being owned  by  the  state,  a  public
  authority,  a  county,  town,  city, village or fire district, or a fire
  corporation subject to the provisions  of  subdivision  (e)  of  section
  fourteen  hundred  two  of  the not-for-profit corporation law or a fire
  company as defined in section one hundred of the general municipal  law.
  Any  of  the  following  vehicles  shall  be  fire vehicles only for the
  purpose of section one  hundred  one  of  this  chapter:  1.  a  vehicle
  operated  by  officials  of the office of fire prevention and control in
  the department of state,
    2. a vehicle ordinarily operated by a chief or assistant  chief  of  a
  fire  department,  or  a  county  or  deputy county fire coordinator, or
  county or assistant county fire marshall, or town or assistant town fire
  coordinator, or such vehicle when operated in an official capacity by or
  under the direction of such person, and
    3. a vehicle specially designed and equipped for firefighting purposes
  which is regularly used for firefighting purposes by a firefighting unit
  on property used for industrial, institutional  or  commercial  purposes
  and which vehicle is owned by the owner or lessee of such property.