[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Trustees of the Village of Fort
Plain 6-24-1971 as Ch. 9, Art. V, of the 1971 Code of Ordinances.
Amendments noted where applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
Vehicles and traffic — See Ch. 182.
If a person charged with a traffic violation does not answer within
a designated time, 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.
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 court 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, law, rule or regulation.
The court shall designate the fines to be paid for offenses which may
be satisfied at the Traffic Violations Bureau, 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
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
local legislative body.
The power of attorney shall be in the following form:
"Whereas, I have been served with a summons for a violation of
and
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Whereas, it is my desire to plead guilty to such violation, I do hereby
authorize the person in charge of the Village of Fort Plain Traffic Violations
Bureau to appear for me and to plead guilty on my behalf and to pay the fine
assessed for such violation, hereby waiving a hearing in court.
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Signature of Defendant"
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