2022 New York Laws
VAT - Vehicle and Traffic
Title 3 - Safety Responsibility; Financial Security; Equipment; Inspection; Size and Weight; and Other Provisions
Article 5 - Periodic Inspection of Motor Vehicles
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.