2013 New York Consolidated Laws
VAT - Vehicle & Traffic
Title 1 - WORDS AND PHRASES DEFINED
Article 1 - (100 - 160) Words and phrases defined.
115-A - 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,
    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.