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This thread discusses speeding tickets and traffic tickets in the state of New York. For parking tickets go here http://forums.dansdeals.com/index.php?topic=15090.0 or here http://forums.dansdeals.com/index.php?topic=23665.msg1088489. For moving violations outside of New York, please start a new thread and add a link here.

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Please read this wiki first. I am not an attorney and this is not legal advice.

Q: Can I get a plea bargain in New York City?
A: No. Every single ticket goes to trial, guilty or not guilty, in New York City. (The 5 boroughs of NY, Kings, Queens, Bronx and Richmond.)

Q: How long does it take for points to fall off your New York State record/license/abstract?
A: For DMV persistent violation purposes 18 months from the date of offense regardless of the date of conviction. At 3 years after the date of conviction on the following January first the points are no longer visible on the driving record which insurance companies and traffic prosecutors look at. DMV always keeps a record of your conviction and if you get too many points over your lifetime you could get a "10 year" revocation, however those records are not visible to insurance companies.

Q: Does it pay to fight my NY ticket or should I just pay it?
A: In order to figure the true cost of a traffic ticket conviction (aside from figuring out the total fines and the effects on your record) you need to call up your insurance company and ask them 2 questions. 1. How much will my insurance go up over the next 4 years if I pay this ticket? 2. How much money in "good driver discounts" will I loss over the next 4 years and how much does this add up to?

The reason you need to ask these 2 questions separately is because the insurance companies "shield themselves" from the statutory requirement to not raise insurance rates for a first violation (or speeds up to 15 MPH) by granting "good driver discounts", and then taking away these good driver discounts when you get your first violation. Therefore the (technically) correct answer to the first question you ask them could be "your insurance will not be raised at all". Then when you ask them the second question the answer may be in the thousands of dollars over the next 4 years, depending on your insurance bracket.

Q: How can I find my New York ticket online? 
A: If it is New York City ticket you can find it at https://transact.dmv.ny.gov/pleadnpay if you received a ticket anywhere outside of NYC and anywhere upstate you must contact the individual Court by phone or mail. There is no way to find your ticket online. Google is not able to find most small Courts as it get confused with giving you the most popular courts and attorneys, therefore I suggest you look up your Court at at www.town-court.com.

Q: How can I get a copy of my NYS driving record/license/abstract?
A: You can buy it at the statutory minimum of $7 at https://my.dmv.ny.gov/crm

Q: Do NJ tickets show up on a regular non CDL NY license?
A: As long as you pay them, no they will not.

Q: Do NY tickets show up on NJ licenses?
A: Yes as a 2 point out of state conviction (most violations).

Q: Do NJ tickets show up on a NY license?
A: As long as you pay them, no. Exceptions 1. if you have a CDL the NJ conviction will record on your NY license. 2. DUI/DWI and criminal driving convictions from NJ do record on your NY license. 3. as stated above if you don't respond to the ticket the suspension will follow you to NY. In addition NJ issues warrants for failing to respond to traffic tickets. 4 If you are convicted of a high speed (90+ MPH, 100+ MPH) in NJ the Judge may suspend your NJ driving privileges. 

Q: Can I pay Court fines with a CC?
A: In NYC for moving violations you can use https://transact.dmv.ny.gov/pleadnpay. For NYC parking tickets you can use http://www.nyc.gov/html/dof/html/parking/parking.shtml. As far as "upstate" Courts go, most Courts will allow you to pay with visa or mastercard in person. Many Courts have a CC sheet which you can fill in and mail back, other Courts have a third party processor such as https://www.ncourt.com to accept cc payments. Call the Court to find out what options they have. No one (so far that I have seen) will take CCs over the phone.

Q: I received a camera ticket for a red light (3 points) or speeding (3-11 points) or a bus lane violation (2 points). Do traffic tickets issued from a camera add points to my license?
A: Camera Tickets never go on your license as they are issued against the car and not the driver. Therefor a camera ticket will not add points to your license or increase your insurance.

Q: If I push a ticket off for 18 months and then I am convicted, can I still be suspended by the DMV for having more than 11 points?
A: Pushing off a ticket will not help protect you from DMV actions. The reason is as follows: if you receive 2 tickets worth 6 points each on the same day, and you plead guilty to one of them on that same day and you push the second ticket off for 5 years, and then you plead guilty to that second ticket, the DMV computer will look at the 2 dates of violation and say "the motorist accumulated (more than) 11 points within an 18 month period" and issue a persistent violator suspension against you license.

Insurance companies work the other way around. They can only raise your premium after your date of conviction. Therefore in our example the insurance companies will increase your insurance after the first conviction appears on your record when they renew your policy (which will stay on your record for 3 years and then until the next January 1st) and then they will increase your rates again after the second ticket conviction shows up on your record when they renew your policy, (once again this second ticket will stay on the record for  3 years plus until the next January first. It follows that pleading/being found guilty in December saves 11 months of policy increase, and if there is a way to lock in a one year policy right before a conviction in December you can be looking at a car increase for only 2 years and 1 day, instead of 4 years minus one day.)

Travelers Insurance offers 1 year rates.
Geico is 6 months.

Traffic Ticket Lawyers:

State
New York Attorney Matisyahu Wolfberg http://www.speedingdefense.com/
New York Attorney Zev Goldstein www.zevgoldsteinlaw.com 845-356-7770
New York Attorney Benjamin Goldman https://www.benjamingoldmanlawoffice.com/ 212-203-3810
New Jersey and New York Attorney Adam H. Rosenblum www.ticketdefenselaw.com
New Jersey Attorney Leib Klein www.avvo.com/attorneys/08701-nj-leib-klein-1602182.html 732-987-7040

Great Upstate NY lawyer at very cheap prices. http://jaydrillings.net/

Not that many parking ticket lawyers!
Parking ticket Non Lawyer (NYC)
Cathy Mei She takes 50% to fight the parking or camera ticket
Office Number 212-349-4978
Email 329ticket@gmail.com
Fax 646-699-3630

Parking Expert non attorney (718) 384-5052

Non attorney runner http://www.myticketsnyc.com/

Non attorney runner http://www.wefighttickets.com/

10+ Counties in upstate NY have diversion programs, allowing you to dismiss the ticket for a fine and defensive driving class. Conditions and restrictions apply. Check the District Attorney's website for your county: Allegany, Broome, Cayuga, Chenango, Clinton, Franklin, Livingston, Orleans, Otsego, Tioga, and Wyoming.

This wiki is not legal advice, nor the advice of an attorney.

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Re: Moving Violation Tickets
« Reply #3240 on: August 09, 2018, 08:50:17 AM »
Years ago I was driving behind a cop who was literally crawling. At the next red light, I stopped on the lane to his right, and when the light turned green went ahead. I don't believe I did anything illegal by driving faster than he did (still below the speed limit) yet he turned on his lights to stop me, and asked for my license and registration. As I was pulling out my license, he noticed another picture ID in my stack of documents and cards, and was sure he was going to nail me on having two licenses. He persisted in trying to accuse me of having two licenses, and when he insisted I showed him the other card (which was a different form of ID, but not a drivers license).

Bottom line is that police officers and criminals have a lot in common. They have macho personalities and like to exert power and authority. He probably stopped me just because he saw someone exerting a small degree of power, by passing someone who was too hesitant to proceed at a stop sign, and wanted to show who really has power. So he makes up an excuse, and hopes to find something else (no license, registration, seatbelt, etc.) to give a ticket. In this situation, he had no options. I'm a careful driver. Haven't been stopped by police in years, was wearing seatbelts, and had all my documents with me. Had it not been the case that I was in a real rush (which is why I bypassed the hesitant driver to begin with), I would have asked for his name and badge number, and filed a complaint for harassment (not that it would help). But I was in a real rush, and just couldn't wait to get to my destination.

Passing on the right is technically illegal in most places.

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Re: Moving Violation Tickets
« Reply #3241 on: August 09, 2018, 09:14:29 AM »
Passing on the right is technically illegal in most places.
Is doing this from a stopped position still called passing on the right? If you approach an intersection driving behind someone, and the light is red, or there's a stop sign, and you move over to the lane on the right that's clear, and come to a full stop. Is that considered passing on the right? In both of my incidents that wasn't cited as the reason for the stop.
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Re: Moving Violation Tickets
« Reply #3242 on: August 21, 2018, 01:05:09 PM »
I got pulled over for an illegal left turn (from a center lane) in a Nassau County town (Old Westbury). Based on the ticket he gave me it looks like he wrote down my DL# wrong.

Two questions: One, is there a way for me to see if he put the number into the system wrong. I know for NYC there's a website to look up tickets under your DL# but I don't see one for Nassau. Two, if he did indeed put the number in wrong, would that be enough for me to get the ticket thrown out?
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Re: Moving Violation Tickets
« Reply #3243 on: August 28, 2018, 10:09:09 PM »
I got a speeding ticket in the Town of Woodbury, going 80mph in a 45mph work zone. Obviously it's a very expensive ticket as I'm looking at 8 points IINM.

My question is as follows, I was driving a 2018 Ram 1500, however, the officer put down Dodge as the make of the vehicle.

Now, everyone knows that back in 2010, Ram became a separate company from Dodge:
"Ram Trucks, stylized as RAM and formally known as the Ram Truck Division, is an American brand of light to mid-weight commercial vehicles established in 2010 as a division of FCA US LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Italian-American corporation Fiat Chrysler Automobiles. It was spun-off from Dodge marque, using the name of the popular Dodge Ram line of trucks. Ram Trucks' logo was originally used as Dodge's logo." - Wikipedia

Can I request the ticket be dismissed based on these grounds?


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Re: Moving Violation Tickets
« Reply #3244 on: August 28, 2018, 11:55:35 PM »
I got a speeding ticket in the Town of Woodbury, going 80mph in a 45mph work zone. Obviously it's a very expensive ticket as I'm looking at 8 points IINM.

My question is as follows, I was driving a 2018 Ram 1500, however, the officer put down Dodge as the make of the vehicle.

Now, everyone knows that back in 2010, Ram became a separate company from Dodge:
"Ram Trucks, stylized as RAM and formally known as the Ram Truck Division, is an American brand of light to mid-weight commercial vehicles established in 2010 as a division of FCA US LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Italian-American corporation Fiat Chrysler Automobiles. It was spun-off from Dodge marque, using the name of the popular Dodge Ram line of trucks. Ram Trucks' logo was originally used as Dodge's logo." - Wikipedia

Can I request the ticket be dismissed based on these grounds?
No, I asked my next door neighbor who is a state trooper.
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Re: Moving Violation Tickets
« Reply #3245 on: August 29, 2018, 11:15:49 AM »
I got a speeding ticket in the Town of Woodbury, going 80mph in a 45mph work zone. Obviously it's a very expensive ticket as I'm looking at 8 points IINM.

My question is as follows, I was driving a 2018 Ram 1500, however, the officer put down Dodge as the make of the vehicle.

Now, everyone knows that back in 2010, Ram became a separate company from Dodge:
"Ram Trucks, stylized as RAM and formally known as the Ram Truck Division, is an American brand of light to mid-weight commercial vehicles established in 2010 as a division of FCA US LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Italian-American corporation Fiat Chrysler Automobiles. It was spun-off from Dodge marque, using the name of the popular Dodge Ram line of trucks. Ram Trucks' logo was originally used as Dodge's logo." - Wikipedia

Can I request the ticket be dismissed based on these grounds?

I cannot see a judge accepting that. #notalawyer

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Re: Moving Violation Tickets
« Reply #3246 on: August 29, 2018, 07:47:45 PM »
Just got pulled over by a Nassau County anti-semitic police offer and received seat belt ticket.

But I was wearing a seat belt!

I was wearing the seat belt, with the strap behind my back. He said since there is no code for wearing a seat belt improperly, he just has to write "no seat belt". And that's what I was ticketed for.

Does anybody know if there is a law how I need to wear my seat-belt? And if he is allowed to write "no seat-belt" if I really was?

The cops name is M. Witter

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Re: Moving Violation Tickets
« Reply #3247 on: August 29, 2018, 08:39:10 PM »
Just got pulled over by a Nassau County anti-semitic police offer and received seat belt ticket.

But I was wearing a seat belt!

I was wearing the seat belt, with the strap behind my back. He said since there is no code for wearing a seat belt improperly, he just has to write "no seat belt". And that's what I was ticketed for.

Does anybody know if there is a law how I need to wear my seat-belt? And if he is allowed to write "no seat-belt" if I really was?

The cops name is M. Witter
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Re: Moving Violation Tickets
« Reply #3248 on: August 29, 2018, 08:45:23 PM »
It was quite obvious

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Re: Moving Violation Tickets
« Reply #3249 on: September 13, 2018, 01:47:10 PM »
I got a ticket in New Hampshire.
I have a NY license... do the points transfer?

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Re: Moving Violation Tickets
« Reply #3250 on: September 13, 2018, 02:23:40 PM »
I got a ticket in New Hampshire.
I have a NY license... do the points transfer?
No. NY only accepts points from 1 or 2 places AFAIK

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Re: Moving Violation Tickets
« Reply #3251 on: September 14, 2018, 10:08:59 AM »
No. NY only accepts points from 1 or 2 places AFAIK

do you know what those 2 places are???
also if the NY DMV doesn't accept points from there that means that my insurance company wont see it as well?

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Re: Moving Violation Tickets
« Reply #3252 on: September 14, 2018, 11:44:33 AM »
Anyone have experience with town of Greenburgh? in Westchester county.

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Re: Moving Violation Tickets
« Reply #3253 on: September 14, 2018, 12:34:42 PM »
do you know what those 2 places are???
also if the NY DMV doesn't accept points from there that means that my insurance company wont see it as well?
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Re: Moving Violation Tickets
« Reply #3254 on: October 03, 2018, 12:41:30 AM »
Friend got a ticket for doing 22 over in wurtsboro NY, court is in Mamakating.

Should he get a lawyer or try to do it himself?

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Re: Moving Violation Tickets
« Reply #3255 on: October 11, 2018, 08:38:07 AM »
I am looking to hire somebody to help with a seatbelt ticket in Nassau County. Anybody have a good recommendation?

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Re: Moving Violation Tickets
« Reply #3256 on: October 11, 2018, 08:54:21 AM »
Friend got a ticket for doing 22 over in wurtsboro NY, court is in Mamakating.

Should he get a lawyer or try to do it himself?

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Re: Moving Violation Tickets
« Reply #3257 on: October 11, 2018, 09:07:51 AM »
Friend got a ticket for doing 22 over in wurtsboro NY, court is in Mamakating.

Should he get a lawyer or try to do it himself?

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He will get a plea deal on his own. The question is whether he can get off all 6 points.

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Re: Moving Violation Tickets
« Reply #3258 on: October 11, 2018, 10:04:54 AM »
I am looking to hire somebody to help with a seatbelt ticket in Nassau County. Anybody have a good recommendation?

Isn't a seatbelt ticket in NY just a fine?

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Re: Moving Violation Tickets
« Reply #3259 on: October 11, 2018, 04:58:52 PM »
He will get a plea deal on his own. The question is whether he can get off all 6 points.
what would you recommend?
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