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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: Traffic Tickets
« Reply #2160 on: November 16, 2015, 02:18:56 PM »
That's what I'm unclear about. Seems to say that if I succeed in pushing the court date off for 3 years from the date of offense, then the insurance and traffic prosecutors will never see it regardless of a guilty conviction. Is this proven true?
not true.


What does that mean?
It just says $50 for going 40 in a 25 school zone.
Was this a camera  ticket?

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Re: Traffic Tickets
« Reply #2161 on: November 16, 2015, 03:38:58 PM »

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Re: Traffic Tickets
« Reply #2162 on: November 18, 2015, 02:27:26 AM »
I received a traffic light ticket in NYC but the paper I was handed is almost blank nothing came through, dose that help me in any way?

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Re: Traffic Tickets
« Reply #2163 on: November 18, 2015, 02:35:51 AM »
That's what I'm unclear about. Seems to say that if I succeed in pushing the court date off for 3 years from the date of offense, then the insurance and traffic prosecutors will never see it regardless of a guilty conviction. Is this proven true?
Read the wiki again it says insurance is the other way around

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Re: Traffic Tickets
« Reply #2164 on: November 18, 2015, 08:28:57 AM »
Read the wiki again it says insurance is the other way around
But the court system?
Think away the box.

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Re: Traffic Tickets
« Reply #2165 on: November 18, 2015, 12:10:36 PM »
Posting for a friend
Got a parking ticket in Queens for street cleaning
A lot of the info on the ticket is either wrong or missing (ie by plate it says: IT)

Online it comes up with the plate number and correct fine amount. What would be grounds to fight it?

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Re: Traffic Tickets
« Reply #2166 on: November 19, 2015, 05:14:17 AM »
But the court system?
Cmiiw but it seems like if you don't get enough points in 18 months (the amount to get suspended) you are OK

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Re: Traffic Tickets
« Reply #2167 on: November 19, 2015, 08:22:29 AM »
I received a traffic light ticket in NYC but the paper I was handed is almost blank nothing came through, dose that help me in any way?

Anyone on this?
Also can I change a not guilty plea to guilty?

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Re: Traffic Tickets
« Reply #2168 on: November 20, 2015, 12:04:17 AM »
Posting for a friend
Got a parking ticket in Queens for street cleaning
A lot of the info on the ticket is either wrong or missing (ie by plate it says: IT)

Online it comes up with the plate number and correct fine amount. What would be grounds to fight it?
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Re: Traffic Tickets
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Re: Traffic Tickets
« Reply #2170 on: November 23, 2015, 07:46:19 PM »

Yes
Then it doesn't affect your record. If you want to fight it post in http://forums.dansdeals.com/index.php?topic=23665.0

I received a traffic light ticket in NYC but the paper I was handed is almost blank nothing came through, dose that help me in any way?
Parking ticket or traffic ticket? Usually the police officers enter the information into the system manually, so they shouldn't have a problem filing it.

Anyone on this?
Also can I change a not guilty plea to guilty?
If you want to you can do so online at any time.

Posting for a friend
Got a parking ticket in Queens for street cleaning
A lot of the info on the ticket is either wrong or missing (ie by plate it says: IT)

Online it comes up with the plate number and correct fine amount. What would be grounds to fight it?
This is a parking ticket, not a traffic ticket. Ask again here: http://forums.dansdeals.com/index.php?topic=23665.0

But the court system?
It depends on what you mean by "the court system". Traditionally traffic courts see up to 4 years back, only looking at convictions, however recently prosecutors have been seeing pending convictions, up to 10 years back.

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Re: Traffic Tickets
« Reply #2171 on: November 26, 2015, 08:03:34 PM »
posting for a friend here!

if someone received a moving violation in nyc but the officer wrote the wrong client id # (instead of writing 123 he wrote 121)can they ignore the ticket or will they get suspended  because they got his name address birthdate.

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Re: Traffic Tickets
« Reply #2172 on: November 26, 2015, 11:53:49 PM »
posting for a friend here!

if someone received a moving violation in nyc but the officer wrote the wrong client id # (instead of writing 123 he wrote 121)can they ignore the ticket or will they get suspended  because they got his name address birthdate.

THANKS IN ADVANCE!!!
One can always hope that the DMV can create a new ID to suspend, without suspending his license, however if the DMV ever combines the records then the next time your friends gets pulled over he can be arrested. The DMV employees may also get it right. Too risky, high cost, low cost on the ticket itself: not worth ignoring.

The real hope is that if he is convicted the DMV will place the conviction on a phantom record so that his insurance won't be raised. 

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Re: Traffic Tickets
« Reply #2173 on: December 01, 2015, 11:34:51 PM »
II got speeding tickets in Ny and Virginia over last year I have already paid them and they're on my nj driving record as "points advisory notice" but it doesn't say that there are any points I'm confused anyone know why
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Re: Traffic Tickets
« Reply #2174 on: December 01, 2015, 11:36:15 PM »
I even got -3 points for safe driving for a year even though I have 2 "points advisory notices"which I'm positive are from out of state speeding tix
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Re: Traffic Tickets
« Reply #2175 on: December 02, 2015, 12:25:24 AM »
I even got -3 points for safe driving for a year even though I have 2 "points advisory notices"which I'm positive are from out of state speeding tix
Point credits do not remove items from your record. They affect the way which the MVC counts your point total. I hope that helps.

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Re: Traffic Tickets
« Reply #2176 on: December 02, 2015, 12:37:58 AM »
What I meant to say was that during the year that I supposedly drove safely and earned -3 points for safe driving they actually had on record my out of state speeding tickets and still credited me -3
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Re: Traffic Tickets
« Reply #2177 on: December 02, 2015, 11:32:42 AM »
Basically this is my main question do points that transferred to my nj license from out of state count towards suspension
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Re: Traffic Tickets
« Reply #2178 on: December 02, 2015, 02:11:16 PM »
So I'm driving to NH on Friday to fight a stop sign ticket.  I'll live blog it here.

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Re: Traffic Tickets
« Reply #2179 on: December 02, 2015, 03:25:36 PM »
So I'm driving to NH on Friday to fight a stop sign ticket.  I'll live blog it here.

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