[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Trustees of the Village
of Solvay as Ch. 12, Art. II, of the 1975 Code. Sections 40-3, 40-6
and 40-7 amended at time of adoption of Code; see Ch. 1, General Provisions,
Art. I. Other amendments noted where applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
Vehicles and traffic — See Ch. 160.
There shall be a Traffic Violations Bureau in the village, the
responsibility for the operation thereof being in the Police Department
under the supervision of the Chief of Police.
The Traffic Violations Bureau shall be in charge of such person
or persons and shall be open at such hours as the Chief of Police
shall designate.
The Traffic Violations Bureau shall dispose of violations of
regulations and legislation affecting parking on public highways,
including violations of legislation regulating parking in municipal
parking fields, by permitting a person charged with an offense, within
the limitation herein stated, to answer at any time prior to the return
day at such Traffic Violations Bureau by paying a prescribed fine
and, in writing, waiving a hearing in court, pleading guilty to the
charge or authorizing the person in charge of the Bureau to make such
plea and pay such fine in court.
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 a person charged with a traffic violation does not answer
as hereinbefore prescribed prior to the return day specified in the
summons after the service of the summons upon him, 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.
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, rule or regulation.
The Village Justice shall designate the fines to be paid for
first and subsequent offenses, which may be satisfied at the Traffic
Violations Bureau, provided that such fines are within the limits
established as penalties for such offenses.
Any person who has been guilty of a number of parking violations
in excess of such maximum number as may be designated by the court,
within the preceding 12 months, 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 keep a record of all violations
of which each person has been guilty, whether such guilt was established
in court or in the Bureau, and also a record of all fines collected
and the disposition thereof. It shall also perform such other or additional
duties and keep such other or additional records as shall be prescribed
by the court and/or the Board of Trustees.
