2020 New York Laws
VAT - Vehicle and Traffic
Title 2 - Department of Motor Vehicles; Commissioner
Article 2 - Department of Motor Vehicles; Commissioner
216-A - Statistics on Driving While Intoxicated.

§ 216-a. Statistics on driving while intoxicated.  1. The commissioner
  shall  collect and analyze statistical information and data with respect
  to: (i) the  number  of  persons  charged  with  violating  any  of  the
  provisions   of  section  eleven  hundred  ninety-two  of  this  chapter
  prohibiting the operation of a motor vehicle while under  the  influence
  of  alcohol  or  drugs,  or  the  provisions  of  section eleven hundred
  ninety-two-a of this  chapter  prohibiting  persons  under  the  age  of
  twenty-one from operating a motor vehicle after having consumed alcohol,
  or  the  provisions  of  section  forty-nine-b  of  the  navigation  law
  prohibiting persons under the age of twenty-one from operating a  vessel
  after  having  consumed alcohol; and (ii) the disposition of such charge
  and (iii) if a conviction or finding was had thereon,  the  category  of
  the  offense  for  which  such conviction or finding was had, whether it
  resulted from a plea of guilty or after trial or after a hearing  before
  a  hearing  officer  and  the  sentence  thereon;  and  (iv)  such other
  information as the commissioner shall deem relevant. Provided,  however,
  that  nothing  herein  shall  be  deemed  to  authorize the reporting or
  collecting of any information relating to the identity of any person  so
  charged, and no such information shall be so reported to or collected by
  the  commissioner except for the purposes of assisting courts or hearing
  officers in the suspension of licenses pursuant to sections five hundred
  ten and five hundred fourteen of  this  chapter  or  the  suspension  of
  operating  privileges pursuant to section forty-nine-b of the navigation
  law, and no such information may be disseminated except to  such  courts
  or hearing officers.
2.  The  commissioner  shall  from  time  to  time  make  reports  and
  recommendations to the governor  and  the  legislature  based  upon  the
  compilation  and  analysis  of the information and data made pursuant to
  this section.