N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law § 71-0203: Uniform appearance ticket and simplified information

§ 71-0203. Uniform appearance ticket and simplified information.

1. The commissioner shall prescribe the form of an appearance ticket

and simplified information for all cases involving a violation of any

provision of this chapter or of any rule, regulation or order adopted or

promulgated thereunder, or of any class or category of such cases, and

to establish procedures for proper administrative controls over the

disposition thereof.

2. The chief executive officer of each local police force including

county, town, city and village police departments, sheriffs and the

superintendent of state police shall prepare or cause to be prepared

such records and reports as may be prescribed hereunder.

3. The commissioner shall have the power to adopt such rules and

regulations as may be deemed necessary to accomplish the purposes and

enforce the provisions of this section including requirements for

reporting by trial courts having jurisdiction over such offenses.

4. Any person who disposes of any uniform appearance ticket and

simplified information in any other manner than that prescribed by law,

rule or regulation shall be guilty of a class B misdemeanor.

5. The provisions of this section shall not apply to any offense for

which a uniform summons and complaint is prescribed by the commissioner

of motor vehicles pursuant to section two hundred seven of the vehicle

and traffic law or by the commissioner of parks and recreation pursuant

to article twenty-seven of the parks and recreation law.