New York State
Department of Motor Vehicles
Custom Plate Gallery - Emergency Services

# Eligible Vehicles:
All vehicles that are registered in NYS as a passenger class vehicle or
as a commercial class vehicle are eligible.
(Note: Commercial plates must display the word "COMMERCIAL".)
Certain custom plates are available for Motorcycles that are registered
in NYS (refer to the plate gallery).

# Eligible Persons:
An organization can require you to prove that you are eligible to use
the organization picture plates
(refer to the plate gallery).
Certain organization picture plates must be ordered through the
organization or the Custom Plates Unit only.

Ham Radio Operator
Requirements: copy of license issued by FCC. $23/$5

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§ 397
§ 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 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 tine 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 operators 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.
§ 397-a. Radar detectors prohibited. 1. No radar detector shall be used
in any motor vehicle with a gross vehicle weight rating of more than
eighteen thousand pounds. The presence in such vehicle of a radar
detector connected to a power source and in an operable condition is
presumptive evidence of its use by any person operating such vehicle.
Such presumption shall be rebutted by any credible and reliable evidence
which tends to show that such radar detector was not in use.
2. The provisions of this section shall not be construed as authorizing
the seizure or forfeiture of a radar detector, unless otherwise provided
by law.
3. A violation of the provisions of this section shall constitute a
traffic infraction punishable by a tine of not less than twenty-five nor
more than one hundred dollars.
§ 397-h. Vehicle leases that are not sales or security interests.
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, in the case of motor
vehicles or trailers which are not vehicles or trailers leased or used
primarily for personal, family, or household purposes, a transaction
does not create a conditional sale or security interest merely because
it provides that the rental price is permitted or required to be
adjusted under the agreement either upward or downward by reference to
the amount realized upon sale or other disposition of the motor vehicle
or trailer.
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