[HISTORY: Adopted by the Common Council of the City of Glens
Falls as Art. XIII of Ch. 117 of the 1967 Code. Amendments noted where
applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
Vehicles and traffic — See Ch. 208.
The City Court of the City of Glens Falls is hereby authorized
to establish a Traffic Violations Bureau, pursuant to Article 14-B
of the General Municipal Law of the State of New York, to assist such
Court in the disposition of offenses in relation to traffic violations.
Such Court is further authorized to designate the person or persons
in charge of such Bureau and to designate the hours during which such
Bureau will be open.
The Traffic Violations Bureau is authorized to dispose of violations
of traffic laws, ordinances, rules and regulations when such offenses
shall not constitute the traffic infraction known as "speeding" or
a misdemeanor or felony. The authority of the Traffic Violations Bureau
to dispose of violations of traffic laws, ordinances, rules and regulations
is further limited in that any person who shall have been, in the
preceding 12 months, guilty of a number of parking violations in excess
of such maximum number as may be designated by the Court or of three
or more violations other than parking violations shall not be permitted
to appear and answer to a subsequent violation at the Traffic Violations
Bureau but must appear in Court at a time specified by the Bureau.
A.
Any person charged with an offense that the Traffic Violations Bureau
has authority to dispose of may answer at the Traffic Violations Bureau
within a specified time, either in person or by written power of attorney
in the form hereinafter prescribed, by paying a prescribed fine and,
in writing, waiving a hearing in Court, pleading guilty to the charge
and authorizing the person in charge of the Bureau to make such a
plea and pay such fine in Court. Acceptance of the prescribed fine
and power of attorney by the Traffic Violations Bureau shall be deemed
complete satisfaction for the violation, and the violator shall be
given a receipt which so states.
B.
If a person charged with such a traffic violation does not answer,
either as hereinbefore prescribed or by appearing before the Court
within the time specified, the Traffic Violations Bureau shall cause
a complaint to be entered against him forthwith and a warrant to be
issued for his arrest and his appearance before the Court. The Traffic
Violations Bureau is not authorized to deprive a person of his right
to counsel or to prevent him from exercising his right to appear in
court to answer to, explain or defend any charge of a violation of
any traffic law, ordinance, rule or regulation.
The City Court of the City of Glens Falls is hereby authorized
to designate the fines to be paid for the offenses which may be satisfied
at the Traffic Violations Bureau in the manner hereinbefore stated,
provided that such fines are within the limits established as penalties
for such offenses and is further authorized to designate the period
or periods of time within which a person charged with such an offense
may answer at the Bureau.
The Traffic Violations Bureau shall keep a record of all such
violations of which each person has been guilty, whether guilt was
established in Court or in the Bureau, and also a record of all fines
collected and the disposition thereof. Such Bureau shall also perform
such other or additional duties and keep such other or additional
records as shall be prescribed by the Court.
The written power of attorney to be used by persons answering
charges by power of attorney in the manner hereinabove prescribed
is as follows:
I, the undersigned, hereby waive a hearing in Court and plead
guilty of the traffic violation as charged on the reverse side hereof
and duly constitute the Clerk of the Traffic Violations Bureau my
attorney in fact, authorizing him to appear in Court, enter my plea
and pay my fine.
Name__________________________________________
Address_________________________________________
(Jurat) Date______________________________________
