N.Y. Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation Law § 27.03: Uniform appearance ticket and simplified information

§ 27.03 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, articles forty-seven and forty-eight of the

vehicle and traffic law, or of any local law, ordinance, 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. The commissioner

may, in his discretion, combine the form of the uniform appearance

ticket and simplified information authorized by this section with the

appearance ticket and information authorized under the navigation law.

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.