374 - Traffic Prosecutor Selection and Oversight.

NY Gen Mun L § 374 (2019) (N/A)
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(b) The county executive of the county of Nassau shall appoint a person to serve as the executive director of the Nassau county traffic and parking violations agency subject to the confirmation of the county legislature of the county of Nassau. The county executive of the county of Suffolk shall appoint a person to serve as the executive director of the Suffolk county traffic and parking violations agency subject to the confirmation of the county legislature of the county of Suffolk. The executive director shall be responsible for the oversight and administration of the agency. The executive director of Nassau county is prohibited from appearing in any capacity in any part of the Nassau county district court and the executive director of Suffolk county is prohibited from appearing in any capacity in any part of the Suffolk county district court on any matter relating to traffic or parking violations and is further prohibited from appearing in any capacity in any other court or administrative tribunal on any matter relating to traffic or parking violations.

(c) It shall be a misdemeanor for the executive director, any traffic prosecutor or any judicial hearing officer assigned to hear traffic or parking violations cases pursuant to section one thousand six hundred ninety of the vehicle and traffic law to establish any quota of traffic violation convictions which must be obtained by any traffic prosecutor or judicial hearing officer. Nothing contained herein shall prohibit the taking of any job action against a traffic prosecutor or judicial hearing officer for failure to satisfactorily perform such prosecutor's or officer's job assignment except that the employment productivity of such prosecutor or officer shall not be measured by the attainment or nonattainment of any conviction quota. For the purposes of this section a conviction quota shall mean a specific number of convictions which must be obtained within a specific time period.

(d) The legislature of the county of Nassau may appropriate those monies which, in the legislature's sole discretion, are necessary for the compensation of those persons selected to serve as executive director and traffic prosecutors and to cover all other expenses associated with the administration of the Nassau county traffic and parking violations agency.

(e) The legislature of the county of Suffolk may appropriate those monies which, in the legislature's sole discretion, are necessary for the compensation of those persons selected to serve as executive director and traffic prosecutors and to cover all other expenses associated with the administration of the Suffolk county traffic and parking violations agency.