[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Trustees of the Village of Springville 11-5-1979
as L.L. No. 3-1979. Amendments noted where applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
Vehicles and traffic — See Ch. 180.
The Village Board of Trustees of the Village of Springville, wishing
to assist the residents of the village and the courts in the disposition of
offenses relating to parking violations, does hereby create a Traffic Violations
Bureau pursuant to Article 14-B of the General Municipal Law.
The Traffic Violations Bureau shall be authorized to dispose of any
violations of the traffic laws, ordinances and rules and regulations when
such offenses shall not constitute the traffic infraction known as speeding
or a misdemeanor or felony.
When an officer of the Police Department of the Village of Springville
shall find a vehicle so parked as to constitute a traffic violation and the
absence of the operator or owner thereof prevents personal service of a notice
by said officer, such officer shall attach a ticket form to said vehicle and
shall prepare, sign and verify all information.
This ticket bearing the information shall bear the caption "Parking
Violation Summons" and shall be identified as having been issued by the police
of the Village of Springville. Said ticket shall indicate the alleged parking
violation and the exact place and date thereof and shall identify the vehicle
as to type and registration number, and said ticket shall have the mailing
address of the Traffic Violations Bureau printed thereon.
A.
Upon discovering a vehicle so parked as to constitute
a traffic violation, notice shall be served upon the owner, which said notice
shall direct him to appear at the Traffic Violations Bureau within seven business
days of the receipt of such notice.
B.
The attaching of a ticket in the form hereinbefore prescribed
to a parked vehicle shall be deemed sufficient notice to the owner of said
vehicle, and the service of a ticket upon an operator of a vehicle shall likewise
be deemed sufficient notice.
A person who has received a notice as provided in this chapter may,
within the time specified in said notice, appear at the Traffic Violations
Bureau, either in person or by written power of attorney, in such form as
prescribed by the Traffic Violations Bureau, by paying a prescribed fine and,
in writing, waiving a hearing in court, pleading guilty to the charges and
giving power of attorney to the person in charge of the Bureau to make such
a plea and to pay such a fine in court. Acceptance of the prescribed fine
and power of attorney by the Traffic Violations Bureau shall be deemed complete
satisfaction for the violation, and the violator shall be given a receipt
which so states.
The penalties collected by the Traffic Violations Bureau shall be in amounts prescribed in Chapter 180, Vehicles and Traffic, and the Traffic Violations Bureau shall have no authority to deviate therefrom.
A person served with a ticket or notice as herein prescribed, who is
desirous of appearing or required to appear and answer the charge or charges
in the Justice Court, may, at the Traffic Violations Bureau, sign a statement
stipulating to appear in the Justice Court at a designated date and session
when the charge or charges against said person shall be placed on the docket
of that Court and waiving the issuance of a warrant.
In the event that the owner or operator of a vehicle to which a ticket
is attached as prescribed herein or a person served with notice as prescribed
herein does not appear at the Traffic Violations Bureau within the designated
time herein provided, or, having so appeared, fails to plead guilty or to
stipulate to appear in the Justice Court, or if he has elected and stipulated
to appear in the Justice Court and fails to make such appearance, then, in
that event, the Traffic Violations Bureau shall present the signed and verified
information to the Justice Court and request that a warrant be issued for
the arrest of such person, and such person shall be subject to prosecution
in the same manner as otherwise provided by law in the same manner as if the
Traffic Violations Bureau did not exist.
