§ 71-0203. 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 or of any 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.

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 or by the commissioner of parks and recreation pursuant
to article twenty-seven of the parks and recreation law.