2013 New York Consolidated Laws
VAT - Vehicle & Traffic
Title 5 - DRIVERS' LICENSES
Article 20 - (510 - 517) SUSPENSION AND REVOCATION
511-D - Aggravated failure to answer appearance tickets or pay fines imposed.

 
    § 511-d. Aggravated  failure to answer appearance tickets or pay fines
  imposed.  1. A person is guilty of the offense of aggravated failure  to
  answer  appearance  tickets or pay fines imposed when such person has in
  effect twenty or more suspensions, imposed on at least  twenty  separate
  dates,  for  failure  to  answer,  appear  or  pay  a  fine  pursuant to
  subdivision three of  section  two  hundred  twenty-six  or  subdivision
  four-a of section five hundred ten of this chapter.
    2.  A  person may be prosecuted for a violation of this section in any
  court of competent jurisdiction in any county:  (a) in which  more  than
  ten  tickets which resulted in suspension for failures to answer, appear
  or pay fines  were  issued,  or  (b)  in  which  the  twentieth  or  any
  subsequent  ticket which resulted in a suspension for failure to answer,
  appear or pay a fine was issued.  The  provisions  of  this  subdivision
  shall not apply to any suspension which has been terminated prior to the
  defendant's being charged with a violation of this section.
    3.  Aggravated  failure  to  answer  appearance  tickets  or pay fines
  imposed is a misdemeanor. When a person is convicted of this crime,  the
  sentence  of the court must be: (i) a fine of not less than five hundred
  dollars; or (ii) a term of imprisonment of not  more  than  one  hundred
  eighty days; or (iii) both such fine and imprisonment.