N.Y. VAT. LAW § 207 : NY Code - Section 207: Uniform traffic summons and complaint

Search N.Y. VAT. LAW § 207 : NY Code - Section 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.