Section 207. Uniform traffic summons and complaint  


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  • 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.