§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 to do so 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.