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SECTION 71-0521
Certificate by court or justice
Environmental Conservation (ENV) CHAPTER 43-B, ARTICLE 71, TITLE 5
§ 71-0521. Certificate by court or justice.

The court or justice, other than a town justice or a village police
justice, before whom any person shall be tried or before whom a
compromise of the civil penalties for a violation of any provision of
this chapter listed in section 71-0501 or under titles 5 through 15
inclusive and title 33 of this article, shall have been made, or the
clerk of the court, if there be a clerk, shall, at the termination of
such trial or proceeding, forthwith mail or deliver to the department at
Albany, or to its representative at such trial or proceeding, a
certified statement of the disposition of the case or proceeding, giving
the date thereof, the name of the defendant, the name of the person upon
whose information the action or proceeding was instituted, the date and
place of the violation, the name of each witness sworn in support of the
charges, and the costs of the court or fees of the justice, and the fees
of the constable, if any. Provided, however, that a town justice or a
village police justice before whom any person shall be tried or before
whom a compromise of the civil penalties for a violation of any
provision of this chapter listed in section 71-0501 or under titles 5
through 15 inclusive and title 33 of this article, shall have been made
shall forthwith mail or deliver to the department at Albany or to its
representative in attendance at such trial or proceeding such certified
statement, and within the first ten days of the month following the
termination of such trial or proceeding deliver to the State Comptroller
at Albany a statement in such form as the Comptroller may require. The
Comptroller upon receipt of such statement shall, as provided in section
71-0507, audit the bills of the justice of the peace and the constable
for fees in such trial or proceeding and shall pay to the persons
entitled thereto the amounts allowed by such audit and shall charge same
to the conservation fund.