For the purpose of assisting the Police Justice Court of the Incorporated
Village of Floral Park, New York, in the disposition of offenses in relation
to traffic violations, the Board of Trustees of the Incorporated Village of
Floral Park, New York, hereby authorizes the said Police Justice Court to
establish a Traffic Violations Bureau.
Such Traffic Violations Bureau shall be in charge of such person or
persons and shall be open at such hours as the court may designate.
[Amended 8-17-1954]
Said Traffic Violations Bureau is hereby authorized to dispose of such violations of traffic laws, ordinances, rules and regulations as the Police Justice Court may, in its discretion, determine but only when such offenses shall not constitute the traffic infraction known as speeding or a misdemeanor or felony, by permitting a person charged with an offense within the limitations herein stated, to answer, at any time from the date of the issuance of the summons up to and including the day before the return date of the summons, between the hours of 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon and from 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m., except Saturdays, Sundays and holidays at the Traffic Violations Bureau, either in person or by written power of attorney in the form prescribed in §
88-10 hereof, 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 such a fine in court.
Acceptance of the prescribed fine and power of attorney by the Bureau
shall be deemed complete satisfaction for the violation and the violator shall
be given a receipt which so states.
[Amended 8-17-1954]
If a person charged with a traffic violation does not answer as hereinbefore
prescribed within the above-mentioned period from the date of the issuance
of the summons up to and including the day before the return date of the summons
or appear in court on the return date of the summons, the 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 Police Justice 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.
Such 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, ordinance, rule or regulation.
The Police Justice Court shall designate the fines to be paid for offenses
which may be satisfied at the Bureau as hereinbefore stated, provided such
fines are within the limits established as penalties for such offenses.
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 Police Justice Court
and/or the Board of Trustees of the Incorporated Village of Floral Park, New
York.
The power of attorney referred to in §
88-3 of this ordinance shall be in the form of a written or typewritten statement setting forth that the person executing the same and charged with a violation thereby appears and answers to the charge by pleading guilty thereto, waives a hearing in court and authorizes the person in charge of the Traffic Violations Bureau to make such a plea and pay such a fine in court in his behalf and shall be signed by the person appearing and answering to the charge in the presence of a witness who shall also affix his signature thereto as such witness.
This ordinance shall take effect February 4, 1954.