[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Trustees of the Village of Tarrytown
2-26-1959 as Ord. 3.13 of the 1959 Unified Code of Ordinances. Amendments
noted where applicable.]
[Amended 5-6-1991 by L.L.
No. 5-1991]
A.
The Board of Trustees, pursuant to the power vested in
it by Article 14B of the General Municipal Law of the State of New York, creates
and hereby authorizes the Justice of the village to establish a Traffic Violations
Bureau to assist the court in the disposition of offenses in relation to certain
traffic violations as hereinafter prescribed.
B.
Such Traffic Violations Bureau shall be in charge of
such person or persons and shall be open at such hours and on such days as
the Justice of the village may designate.
Such 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 a felony by permitting a person charged with such an offense within the
limitations above stated to answer within a specified time, at the Traffic
Violations Bureau, either in person or by written power of attorney, 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 the fine prescribed therefor in court. Acceptance by the Traffic
Violations Bureau of the prescribed fine and power of attorney shall be deemed
complete satisfaction for the violation, and the violator shall be given a
receipt which so states.
The power of attorney mentioned in § 61-2 hereof shall be sufficient when signed by the person charged with the offense if it states or fairly imports that a named person, having a named address, is authorized to answer and act for the person charged with respect to the offense charged, and such power of attorney may be incorporated in a form or letter addressed to said Traffic Violations Bureau containing other matters.
If a person charged with a traffic violation does not answer as hereinbefore
prescribed within the specified time, the Traffic Violations Bureau shall
cause a complaint to be entered against him forthwith and a warrant to be
issued for his arrest and appearance before the court.
Any person who shall have been, within 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.
Said Traffic Violations Bureau may not and shall not in any way deprive
a person of the right to counsel or prevent him from exercising his right
to appear in court to explain or defend any charge of a violation of a traffic
law, ordinance, rule or regulation.
[Amended 5-6-1991 by L.L.
No. 5-1991]
The Justice of the village shall designate the fines to be paid for
the offenses which may be satisfied at the Traffic Violations Bureau as hereinbefore
set forth, provided that such fines are within the limitations established
by law or ordinance as penalties for such offenses.
[Amended 5-6-1991 by L.L.
No. 5-1991]
The Traffic Violations Bureau shall keep a record of all violations
of which each person has been guilty, whether such guilt was established in
court or in the Traffic Violations Bureau, and also a record of all fines
collected and the disposition thereof. The Traffic Violations Bureau shall
also perform such other or additional duties and keep such other or additional
records as shall be prescribed by the Justice and/or the Board of Trustees.
