[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Trustees of the Village
of Medina 3-24-1992 by L.L. No. 4-1992. Amendments noted where applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
Vehicles and traffic — See Ch. 236.
For the purpose of assisting the Village Justice of the Village
of Medina in the disposition of offenses in relation to traffic violations,
the Village Justice of the Village of Medina is hereby authorized
to establish a Traffic Violations Bureau, pursuant to Article 14-B
of the General Municipal Law.
The Traffic Violations Bureau shall be administered by such
person or persons as shall be designated by the Village Justice of
the Village of Medina and approved by the Board of Trustees of the
Village of Medina and shall be open during such hours as shall be
designated by the Board of Trustees of the Village of Medina.
The Traffic Violations Bureau so established shall dispose of
violations of traffic and parking laws, ordinances, rules and regulations,
when such offenses shall not constitute the traffic infraction of
speeding or those designated as misdemeanors or felonies, by permitting
persons charged with such offenses, within the limitations herein
stated, to answer, on or before the return date specified in any summons
and at the times within which the Traffic Violations Bureau shall
be open, 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 Traffic Violations Bureau to make such plea and pay
such fine in court. Such an appearance, answer, waiver and payment
of a prescribed fee or fine may be made in person or by mail, addressed
to the Traffic Violations Bureau.
Acceptance of the prescribed fine by the Traffic Violations
Bureau shall be deemed complete satisfaction for the violation, and
the violator shall be given a receipt which so states, if the violator
shall specifically request such receipt.
If a person charged with a traffic violation does not answer,
as hereinbefore prescribed, on or before the return date specified
in the summons as aforesaid, the Traffic Violations Bureau shall forthwith
report such failure to answer to the court for appropriate action.
Any person who shall have been, within the preceding 12 months,
guilty of more than three parking violations or guilty 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.
The Traffic Violations Bureau shall not be 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, parking law or traffic or parking
rule or regulation.
The Village Justice shall designate the fines to be paid for
the first and subsequent offenses which may be satisfied at the Traffic
Violations Bureau, as hereinbefore stated, provided that such fines
are within the limits established as penalties for such offenses.
The Traffic Violations Bureau shall keep a record of all violations
for which each person has been either proven or pled guilty, whether
such guilt was established in court or by appearance in the Bureau,
and shall also keep a record of all fines collected and the disposition
thereof. Such records shall be kept in such manner as prescribed by
the Village Justice. The Traffic Violations Bureau shall report weekly
to the Village Justice with reference to all fines collected and the
disposition thereof and shall further report, weekly, to the Village
Justice any and all relevant statistics with reference to the operation
of the Traffic Violations Bureau. The Traffic Violations Bureau shall
also perform such other or additional duties and keep such other or
additional records as shall, from time to time, be directed by resolution
adopted by the Board of Trustees.
