N.Y. Vehicle & Traffic Law § 216-a: Statistics on driving while intoxicated

§ 216-a. Statistics on driving while intoxicated. 1. The commissioner

shall collect and analyze statistical information and data with respect

to: (i) the number of persons charged with violating any of the

provisions of section eleven hundred ninety-two of this chapter

prohibiting the operation of a motor vehicle while under the influence

of alcohol or drugs, or the provisions of section eleven hundred

ninety-two-a of this chapter prohibiting persons under the age of

twenty-one from operating a motor vehicle after having consumed alcohol,

or the provisions of section forty-nine-b of the navigation law

prohibiting persons under the age of twenty-one from operating a vessel

after having consumed alcohol; and (ii) the disposition of such charge

and (iii) if a conviction or finding was had thereon, the category of

the offense for which such conviction or finding was had, whether it

resulted from a plea of guilty or after trial or after a hearing before

a hearing officer and the sentence thereon; and (iv) such other

information as the commissioner shall deem relevant. Provided, however,

that nothing herein shall be deemed to authorize the reporting or

collecting of any information relating to the identity of any person so

charged, and no such information shall be so reported to or collected by

the commissioner except for the purposes of assisting courts or hearing

officers in the suspension of licenses pursuant to sections five hundred

ten and five hundred fourteen of this chapter or the suspension of

operating privileges pursuant to section forty-nine-b of the navigation

law, and no such information may be disseminated except to such courts

or hearing officers.

2. The commissioner shall from time to time make reports and

recommendations to the governor and the legislature based upon the

compilation and analysis of the information and data made pursuant to

this section.