Section 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.