2006 New York Code - Procedure For Traffic Violations.

 
    §  2411.  Procedure  for  traffic violations.   1. The board of judges
  shall have power to provide, by resolution, a procedure  to  govern  the
  payment of fines by any person accused of violating any provision of any
  law,  ordinance,  rule or regulation relating to vehicular or pedestrian
  traffic, without appearing in  person,  except  in  cases  of  speeding,
  reckless  driving,  leaving  scene  of  an  accident  or any charge of a
  misdemeanor or felony or any charge which  may  for  reasons  of  public
  policy  require  the personal appearance of the accused, for such period
  of time as shall be deemed in the public interest; to fix the fine to be
  paid in each class of case within the minimum and maximum amount set  by
  law,  ordinance,  rule  or  regulation; to designate the place or places
  where such fines may be paid; to prescribe the form of the summonses  to
  be  used  and  the manner in which the plea of guilty shall be made; and
  the manner in which the money shall be paid.
    2. Such procedure may provide that any person  pleading  "guilty",  or
  that  a  person  pleading  "not guilty" and asking that a day be set for
  trial, may do so through a representative or by  mail  and  may  further
  provide that the clerk of the court set such day for trial.
    3.  No  resolution providing such procedure shall be effective until a
  certified copy thereof shall have been filed with the county clerk.
    4. Whenever any summons is issued involving any provision of any  law,
  ordinance,  rule or regulation relating to motor vehicle parking and the
  procedure for such violation is provided under this section, the  member
  of the police force or the peace officer, acting pursuant to his special
  duties,  serving  said  summons  in lieu of inserting in the summons the
  name of the person summoned, may insert therein, in the  space  provided
  for  the  insertion  of  the  name  of  the  person  summoned, the words
  "Registered owner of motor vehicle bearing license", said  words  to  be
  followed  by  the  license designation or identification as shown by the
  license plates on  said  motor  vehicle  parked  in  violation  of  law,
  ordinance,  rule  or  regulation  as  aforesaid, and said summons may be
  served upon said registered owner by a member of the police force or  by
  a  peace officer, acting pursuant to his special duties, by affixing the
  summons to said motor vehicle in some  conspicuous  place  where  it  is
  likely  to  be  seen  by  an  operator thereof. An operator of the motor
  vehicle, for the purposes of this section  if  not  the  owner  thereof,
  shall be deemed to be the agent of such registered owner to receive said
  summons  served  in the manner aforesaid, and service made in the manner
  provided shall be deemed to be lawful service upon the registered  owner
  of the motor vehicle to which the summons is affixed. For the purpose of
  the  service of the summons as herein provided, the registration records
  of the motor vehicle department of the state in which the motor  vehicle
  is registered shall be conclusive evidence as to the registered owner of
  the motor vehicle.  When a summons is issued and served as authorized in
  this  section,  the information sworn to may charge the violation in the
  same manner and any further proceedings authorized in this  section  may
  be  had  and  recorded  in  the  name  of the "Registered owner of motor
  vehicle bearing license", said words  to  be  followed  by  the  license
  designation or identification as shown by the license plates.