132-A - Police vehicle.

§ 132-a. Police  vehicle.   Every vehicle owned by the state, a public  authority, a county, town, city or village, and operated by  the  police  department  or  law enforcement agency of such governmental unit or by a  constable or police constable of a town  when  acting  pursuant  to  his  special  duties.  Any  other  vehicle  operated  by a chief or deputy or  assistant chief of a  police  department,  a  sheriff,  undersheriff  or  regular  deputy  sheriff,  and  a  vehicle owned and operated by the law  enforcement unit of a public or private corporation authorized by law to  maintain a unit for the enforcement of  law  on  the  property  of  such  corporation  shall  be a police vehicle only for the purposes of section  one hundred one of this chapter.