§ 27.03 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, articles forty-seven and forty-eight of the
vehicle and traffic law, or of any local law, ordinance, 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. The commissioner
may, in his discretion, combine the form of the uniform appearance
ticket and simplified information authorized by this section with the
appearance ticket and information authorized under the navigation law.

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.