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Amateur Radio and
the NYS Vehicle and Traffic Laws (VTL) |
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Title 3 Article 12 Sec 397 § 397. |
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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. |
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