The owners and proprietors of all manufactories, hotels, tenement houses, apartment houses, office buildings, boarding and lodging-houses, warehouses, stores and offices, theatres and music halls, and the authorities or persons having charge of all hospitals and asylums, and of the public schools and other public buildings, churches and other places where large numbers of persons are congregated for purposes of worship, instruction or amusement, and all piers, bulkheads, wharves, pier sheds, bulkhead sheds or other waterfront structures, shall provide such means of communicating alarms of accident or danger to the police department, as the police commissioner may prescribe.
a. It shall be unlawful for any person to equip an automobile with a radio receiving set capable of receiving signals on the frequencies allocated for police use, or use or possess an automobile so equipped, without a permit issued by the police commissioner, in his or her discretion, and in accordance with such regulations as the commissioner may prescribe. Such permit shall expire one year from the date of issuance thereof, unless sooner revoked by the commissioner, and shall not be transferred from the vehicle in which it was installed at the time the license was issued. The annual fee shall be twenty-five dollars for each automobile so equipped. A permit may be renewed upon the payment of a like sum and under like conditions.
b. The police commissioner is authorized, in his or her discretion, to issue permits for radio receiving sets capable of receiving signals on the frequencies allocated to police use to employees of federal, state and municipal bureaus and departments without requiring the payment of the annual fee herein provided.
c. Violations. Any person who shall violate any provision of this section, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine of not more than twenty-five dollars, or imprisonment for thirty days, or both.
a. It shall be unlawful in the city of New York for any person to unscramble or decode or possess or use any instrument or article capable of unscrambling or decoding, scrambled or coded police broadcasts by radio or television, unless such person is duly authorized to do so by permit issued by the police commissioner of the city of New York.
b. A person who violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor.
If any two or more householders shall report in writing, over their signatures, to the police commissioner or to a deputy police commissioner, that there are good grounds, stating the same, for believing any house, room or premises within the city to be kept or used as a common gambling-house, common gaming-room, or common gaming premises, for playing for wagers of money at any game of chance therein, or to be kept or used for lewd and obscene purposes or amusements, or the deposit or sale of lottery tickets or lottery policies, it shall be lawful for the police commissioner or either of the commissioner's deputies to authorize, in writing, any member or members of the force to enter the same who may forthwith arrest all persons there found offending against law, but none other; and seize all implements of gaming or lottery policies, and convey any person so arrested before a judge of the criminal court, and bring the articles so seized to the office of the property clerk. It shall be the duty of such police commissioner or deputy police commissioner to cause such arrested person to be rigorously prosecuted, and such articles seized to be destroyed, as the orders, rules and regulations of the commissioner shall direct.
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