N.Y. Vehicle & Traffic Law § 237-a: Functions, powers and duties of traffic camera violations bureaus

§ 237-a. Functions, powers and duties of traffic camera violations

bureaus. The traffic camera violations bureau shall have the following

functions, powers and duties:

1. To hear and determine the liability of owners for violations of

section eleven hundred seventy-four of this chapter when meeting a

school bus marked and equipped as provided in subdivisions twenty and

twenty-one-c of section three hundred seventy-five of this chapter

imposed pursuant to a local law or ordinance imposing monetary liability

on the owner of a vehicle for failure of an operator thereof to comply

with school bus red visual signals through the installation and

operation of school bus photo violation monitoring systems, in

accordance with article twenty-nine of this chapter;

2. To provide for penalties in accordance with a local law or

ordinance establishing a demonstration program imposing monetary

liability on the owner of a vehicle for failure of an operator thereof

to comply with school bus red visual signals through the installation

and operation of school bus photo violation monitoring systems, in

accordance with article twenty-nine of this chapter;

3. To adopt rules and regulations not inconsistent with any applicable

provision of law to carry out the purposes of this article, including

but not limited to rules and regulations prescribing the internal

procedures and organization of the bureau, the manner and time of

entering pleas, the conduct of hearings, and the amount and manner of

payment of penalties;

4. To issue subpoenas to compel the attendance of persons to give

testimony at hearings and to compel the production of relevant books,

papers and other things;

5. To enter judgments and enforce them, without court proceedings, in

the same manner as the enforcement of money judgments in civil actions

in any court of competent jurisdiction or any other place provided for

the entry of civil judgment within the state of New York;

6. To compile and maintain complete and accurate records relating to

all notices of liability and dispositions and to prepare complete and

accurate transcripts of all hearings conducted by the bureau and to

furnish such transcripts to the person issued the notice of liability at

said person's own expense upon timely request, and upon said person

complying with the regulations of the bureau;

7. To remit to the chief financial officer of the county, city, town,

or village, on or before the fifteenth day of each month, all monetary

penalties or fees received by the bureau during the prior calendar

month, along with a statement thereof, and, at the same time, to file

duplicate copies of such statement with the comptroller; and

8. To answer within a reasonable period of time all relevant and

reasonable inquiries made by a person issued a notice of liability or

such person's attorney concerning the notice of liability issued to that

person. The bureau must also furnish within a reasonable period of time

to the person issued a notice of liability, on such person's request and

upon complying with the regulations of the bureau, a copy of the

original notice of liability including all information contained

thereon. Failure by the bureau to comply with the provisions of this

subdivision or any part of the provisions of this subdivision, within

forty-five days of such inquiry, forwarded to the bureau by certified or

registered mail, return receipt requested, will result, upon the request

of the person issued the notice of liability, in an automatic dismissal

of all liability relating to and only to that notice of liability to

which the inquiry was made.