Pursuant to Article 14B, Sections 370, 371,
372, 373 of the General Municipal Law, the Town Board of the Town
of West Seneca hereby authorizes the Justice Court of the Town of
West Seneca to establish a Traffic Violations Bureau to aid said Court
in the disposition of traffic offenses and violations when such offenses
shall not constitute a traffic infraction known as speeding or a misdemeanor
or felony.
Said Bureau shall be in the charge of such person
or persons and shall be open at such hours as the Justice Court of
the Town of West Seneca may designate.
Said Traffic Violations Bureau so established
is authorized to dispose of traffic violations of traffic laws, ordinances,
rules and regulations of the state or local laws 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, within a specified
time, at the Traffic Violations Bureau, either in person or by written
power of attorney as herein prescribed, by paying a prescribed fine
and, in writing, waiving a hearing in Court, pleading guilty to the
charge and authorizing the person or persons in charge of the Bureau
to make such a plea and pay such a fine in Court.
Said Traffic Violations Bureau of the Town of
West Seneca 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, explain or defend any charge of a violation of any
traffic law, ordinance, rule or regulation.
The Traffic Violations Bureau as herein authorized
shall maintain 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 Town Board of the Town of West Seneca.
All persons who shall appear by written power
of attorney must execute the following form and forward to the Traffic
Violations Bureau said form, together with their operator's license
and the sum prescribed by the Justice Court of the Town of West Seneca:
TO: TRAFFIC VIOLATIONS BUREAU OF WEST
SENECA WEST SENECA TOWN HALL, 1250 UNION ROAD WEST SENECA, NEW YORK
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the undersigned having been given a tag or summons by a police officer
for an offense payable in the Traffic Violations Bureau of the Town
of West Seneca, hereby pays the sum of $............. as prescribed
by the Justice Court of the Town of West Seneca in complete satisfaction
for the offense and waives a hearing in Court, pleads guilty to the
charge and authorizes the person or persons in charge of the Bureau
to make such a plea and pay such a fine in Court.
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State of New York
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County of Erie
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Town of West Seneca
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On the........ day of................
20..... before me personally appeared to me known and known to me
to be the individual described in and who executed the foregoing instrument
and acknowledged to me that he executed the same.
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