2017 New York Laws
VAT - Vehicle & Traffic
Title 9 - Penalties and Disposition of Fines and Forfeitures
Article 45 - Penalties and Disposition of Fines and Forfeitures
1810 - Compensation of Officers Shall Not Depend Upon Apprehension or Arrests.

 1810. Compensation of officers shall not depend upon apprehension or
  arrests.  (a)  No  city  or  village  shall employ any officer, agent or
  person whose compensation shall in any way depend upon the  apprehension
  or  arrest  of any person or persons for violating any ordinance adopted
  pursuant to section sixteen hundred four of this chapter or for reckless
  driving as defined in section twelve hundred twelve of this chapter.  If
  any person be apprehended or arrested or haled before a magistrate for a
  violation  of  a  local  ordinance  adopted  pursuant to section sixteen
  hundred four or for  reckless  driving  as  defined  by  section  twelve
  hundred  twelve of this chapter by any officer, agent or employee of any
  city or village who is so employed, the fact of such employment  at  the
  time  shall  be  a  defense  to  any  charge  made for violation of such
  ordinance or for reckless driving.
(b) No county or town shall  employ  any  officer,  agent  or  person,
  whether  such employee be elected or appointed, whose compensation shall
  in any way depend upon the apprehension or  arrest  of  any  person  for
  reckless  driving  as  defined  in section twelve hundred twelve of this
  chapter. If any person be apprehended or  arrested  or  haled  before  a
  magistrate  for reckless driving as so defined, by any officer, agent or
  employee of any county or town who is so  employed,  the  fact  of  such
  employment  at  the  time  shall  be  a  defense  to any charge made for
  reckless driving as defined in section twelve  hundred  twelve  of  this
  chapter.