NY Gen Mun L § 374-A (2021)
2021 New York Laws GMU - General Municipal Article 14-B - Traffic Violations Bureaus 374-A - Traffic Prosecutor Selection and Oversight.

§ 374-a. Traffic prosecutor selection and oversight. (a) The executive director of the Buffalo traffic violations agency, appointed pursuant to subdivision  (b)  of this section, shall select and may contract with or hire one or more  persons  who  are  attorneys,  duly  admitted  to  the practice  of  law  in  New York state for the prosecution of any traffic infraction, except those described in paragraphs  (a),  (b),  (c),  (d), (e),  (f)  and  (g)  of  subdivision  two-a  of  section  three  hundred seventy-one of this article, to be heard, tried or otherwise disposed of by the Buffalo city court. Such  persons  shall  be  known  as  "traffic prosecutors", as that term is defined in section three hundred seventy-a of  this  article.  Traffic  prosecutors  shall have the same power as a district attorney would otherwise have in the prosecution of any traffic infraction which may,  pursuant  to  the  jurisdictional  provisions  of section  three hundred seventy-one of this article, be prosecuted before the Buffalo city court if the traffic violation occurred in the city  of Buffalo.  The  executive  director  shall  give  active consideration to requiring that such traffic prosecutors  serve  on  a  full-time  basis. Traffic  prosecutors are prohibited from appearing in any capacity other than as a traffic prosecutor in any part of the Buffalo  city  court  on any  matter  relating  to  traffic violations and are further prohibited from appearing in any capacity other than as a traffic prosecutor in any other court or administrative tribunal on any matter relating to traffic violations.  (b) The mayor of the city of Buffalo shall appoint a person  to  serve as  the  executive  director  of  the  Buffalo traffic violations agency subject to the confirmation  of  the  common  council  of  the  city  of Buffalo.  The  executive director shall be responsible for the oversight and administration of the agency. The executive director  is  prohibited from  appearing in any capacity in any part of the Buffalo city court on any matter relating to traffic violations and is further prohibited from appearing in any capacity in any other court or administrative  tribunal on any matter relating to traffic violations.  (c)  It shall be a misdemeanor for the executive director, any traffic prosecutor or any judicial hearing  officer  assigned  to  hear  traffic violations  cases  pursuant  to  section  sixteen  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) Pursuant to article 20 of the Buffalo City Charter,  the  city  of Buffalo  may appropriate those monies which, in its 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  Buffalo  traffic violations agency.