[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Trustees of the Village of Laurel
Hollow 11-24-64 as Ord. No. XXI of the General Ordinances. Amendments noted
where applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
Vehicle and traffic regulations — See Ch. 135.
The Police Justice of the Incorporated Village of Laurel Hollow is hereby
authorized to establish a Traffic Violations Bureau for said village.
The Traffic Violations Bureau when so established shall be 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, as follows:
A.
By permitting a person charged with an offense within
the limitations hereinabove stated, to answer within a period of ten (10)
days at the Traffic Violations Bureau, either in person or by written power
of attorney in the form hereinafter set forth, by paying the fine designated
by the Police Justice for such violation, and in writing, waiving a hearing
in court, pleading guilty to the charge and authorizing the person in charge
of the Traffic Violations Bureau to make such a plea and pay such a fine in
court; provided, however, that any person who shall have been, within the
preceding twelve (12) months, adjudged guilty of a number of parking violations
in excess of such number as may be designated by the Police Justice of the
Village of Laurel Hollow, or of three (3) or more traffic violations other
than parking violations, shall not be permitted to appear and answer to a
subsequent violation at the Traffic Violations Bureau, but shall be required
to appear in court at a time to be specified by the Bureau.
B.
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.
A.
Any summons charging a parking violation may be served
upon the violator in person or may be affixed to the motor vehicle involved
in the violation.
B.
If, in any parking violation case where the summons was
affixed to the motor vehicle and not served personally, no one answers as
hereinabove provided within the time designated in the summons, the Traffic
Violations Bureau shall send a letter by certified mail return receipt requested
to the registered owner of such vehicle as disclosed by the records of the
Department of Motor Vehicles, enclosing a copy of the summons and warning
the registered owner that he will be held responsible for the appearance of
the offender and directing the registered owner to answer the summons in the
manner hereinabove provided within a designated time which shall be not less
than six (6) days from the date of mailing of said letter.
C.
If any person served personally with a summons under this chapter, or if any registered owner of the motor vehicle involved who is served and notified as provided in Subsection B of this section, does not answer as hereinabove provided within the designated time, the Traffic Violations Bureau shall cause a complaint to be entered against him forthwith and shall apply for a warrant to be issued for his arrest and appearance before the court.
D.
The Traffic Violations Bureau shall perform such other
or additional duties as shall be prescribed by law, by the Police Justice
or the Board of Trustees of the village.
The power of attorney referred to in this chapter shall be in the following
form:
POWER OF ATTORNEY
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The undersigned hereby acknowledges service of the summons herein, waives
a hearing in Court, pleads guilty to the offense charged in said summons and
authorizes the Clerk of the Traffic Violations Bureau of the Incorporated
Village of Laurel Hollow to appear in Court for me, to make such plea of guilty
on my behalf and to pay the prescribed fine using the money enclosed.
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Signed . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Print your name . . . . . . . . . .
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Address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Nothing contained in this chapter shall be deemed to authorize the Traffic
Violations Bureau 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.