The Board of Trustees of the Village of Sleepy Hollow, pursuant
to the power vested in it by Article 14-B of the General Municipal
Law of the State of New York, creates and hereby authorizes the Police
Justice of the Village of Sleepy Hollow to establish a Traffic Violations
Bureau to assist the court in the disposition of offenses in relation
to certain traffic violations as hereinafter described.
Such Traffic Violations Bureau shall be in charge of such person
or persons and shall be open at such hours and on such days as the
Police Justice of the Village of Sleepy Hollow may designate.
Such Traffic Violations Bureau is authorized to dispose of violations
of traffic laws, rules and regulations when such offenses shall not
constitute the traffic infraction known as "speeding" or a misdemeanor
or felony, by permitting a person charged with such 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, 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 plea and pay such
a fine in court. Acceptance by the Traffic Violations Bureau of the
prescribed fine and power of attorney 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 hereinabove prescribed, within the 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.
[Amended 10-14-1986 by L.L. No. 2-1986]
Any person, firm or corporation who shall have been, within
the preceding 12 months, guilty of five or more parking violations
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.
Said Traffic Violations Bureau may not and shall not in any
way deprive a person of the right to counsel or prevent any person
from exercising his or her right to appear in court to answer, to
explain or to defend any charge of a violation of any traffic law,
rule and regulation.
Said Police Justice of the Village of Sleepy Hollow shall designate,
within the provisions of existing laws and/or rules, the fines to
be paid for offenses, which may be satisfied at the Traffic Violations
Bureau as hereinabove set forth.
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 Traffic Violations Bureau, and also a record of
all fines collected and the disposition thereof. Said Traffic Violations
Bureau shall also perform such other or additional duties and keep
such other or additional records as shall be prescribed by the Police
Justice of the Village of Sleepy Hollow and/or the Board of Trustees
of said Village.