[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Trustees of the Village of Centre Island 4-5-1976 by L.L. No. 1-1976 as Art. 3 of the 1976 Municipal Code. Amendments noted where applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
Police Department — See Ch. 23.
The Village Justice of the Incorporated Village of Centre Island 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 Village 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 30 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 Village 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 12 months, adjudged guilty of a number of parking violations in excess of such number as may be designated by the Justice of the Village of Centre Island or of three 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 not be less than six 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.
The Traffic Violations Bureau shall perform such other or additional duties as shall be prescribed by law, by the Village Justice or the Board of the Trustees of the Village.
The power of attorney referred to in this chapter shall be in the following form:
POWER OF ATTORNEY
The undersigned hereby acknowledges service of the summons herein, waives a hearing in Court, pleads guilty to the offense charged in the summons and authorizes the Clerk of the Traffic Violations Bureau of the Incorporated Village of Centre Island 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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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.