N.Y. Vehicle & Traffic Law § 207: Uniform traffic summons and complaint

§ 207. Uniform traffic summons and complaint. 1. Except as otherwise

provided, the commissioner shall be authorized to prescribe the form of

summons and complaint in all cases involving a violation of any

provision of this chapter, including section twelve hundred three-c, or

of any provision of the tax law or of the transportation law regulating

traffic, or of any ordinance, rule or regulation relating to traffic,

and to establish procedures for proper administrative controls over the

disposition thereof. The commissioner is not authorized to prescribe the

form of summons and complaint for parking, stopping or standing

violations or a violation of article forty-seven or forty-eight of this

chapter.

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 from time to time to adopt

such rules and regulations as may be necessary to accomplish the

purposes and enforce the provisions of this section including

requirements for reporting by trial courts having jurisdiction over

traffic violations.

4. The provisions of this section shall not apply to or supersede any

ordinance, rule or regulation heretofore or hereafter made, adopted or

prescribed pursuant to law in any city having a population of one

million or over, and the commissioner may limit the application of any

rule or regulation to exclude specified violations based upon conditions

or factors making differentiation or separate classification necessary

or desirable.

5. Any person who disposes of any uniform traffic summons and

complaint in any manner other than that prescribed by law shall be

guilty of a misdemeanor.