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2023 New York Laws › PAR - Parks, recreation and historic preservation › Title C - Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation › Article 19-A - Property Held by the Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation › 19.29 - Deaccessioning.

§  19.29  Deaccessioning.  Notwithstanding any other provision of law,
  the commissioner may donate a work of art or an historic or other object
  of personal property under the jurisdiction of the office  to  a  public
  corporation. The commissioner may also dispose of such property directly
  pursuant  to  a process set forth in regulation which is consistent with
  subdivision three of  section  one  hundred  sixty-seven  of  the  state
  finance  law or may transfer such property with or without conditions to
  the office of general services, and the office of general services shall
  be authorized to accept such work of art or such object and  dispose  of
  such  property  in accordance with the provisions of section one hundred
  sixty-seven of the state finance law, or at a private sale. Such work of
  art or object shall only be donated, transferred  or  sold  pursuant  to
  this section provided that:
1.  The  commissioner  determines  such  work  of  art or object to be
  surplus to the needs of the office or the public.
2. The work of art or object to be disposed of  is  first  documented,
  recorded  and  offered  to  the  New  York  state  museum for use in its
  collections, and if not accepted within thirty days of  such  offer,  it
  shall  be  offered  for  transfer to state agencies having a legislative
  mandate to acquire, exhibit, preserve and interpret  works  of  art  and
  historic  objects.  Proceeds  derived  from  the  deaccessioning  of any
  property from the collections of the office shall be deposited into  the
  state   park   infrastructure   fund  established  pursuant  to  section
  ninety-seven-mm of the state finance law and shall be used only for  the
  acquisition  of  collections and/or for the preservation, protection and
  care of the collections, including capital projects relating thereto.
2023 New York Laws › PAR - Parks, recreation and historic preservation › Title C - Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation › Article 20 - New York State Park Preserve System › 20.01 - Purpose.

§  20.01 Purpose.  With the loss of natural areas through development,
  there is a critical need for the creation of a new designation  of  park
  land  containing  wildlife,  flora, scenic, historical and archeological
  sites that are unique and rare in New York state.  The commissioner  may
  designate  a  system  of park preserves to assure the protection of this
  heritage for future generations.
Furthermore, there is a need to create an additional park designation,
  to be known  as  park  preservation  areas,  to  identify  and  conserve
  portions  of  state  parks,  parkways,  historic  sites and recreational
  facilities that, although the entire facility does not qualify as a park
  preserve, nonetheless possess outstanding ecological  values,  including
  assemblages of flora and fauna that are unique or rare in the state. The
  commissioner  may  designate  a  system  of  park  preservation areas to
  protect  outstanding  ecological  values  within  facilities  under  the
  jurisdiction of the office that have not been designated park preserves.
  For administrative purposes, designated park preservation areas shall be
  considered a part of the park preserve system.
2023 New York Laws › PAR - Parks, recreation and historic preservation › Title C - Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation › Article 20 - New York State Park Preserve System › 20.03 - Cooperation of Other Agencies.

§  20.03 Cooperation of other agencies.  To effectuate the purposes of
  this article, the commissioner may request from any  department,  board,
  bureau,  commission  or  other  agency  of  the  state, and the same are
  authorized and directed to provide,  such  cooperation  and  assistance,
  services  and  data as will enable the council properly to carry out its
  powers and duties thereunder.
2023 New York Laws › PAR - Parks, recreation and historic preservation › Title D - Snowmobiles › Article 21 - General Provisions › 21.01 - Legislative Findings and Purpose.

§  21.01  Legislative  findings  and purpose.   The legislature hereby
  finds that it is in the  public  interest  to  register  snowmobiles  as
  recreational  vehicles  for  the  purpose  of  enforcement of reasonable
  provisions concerning their use and control; to encourage the  sport  of
  snowmobiling  as  a  family activity; to promote the proper and safe use
  and operation of snowmobiles; to provide an adequate safety  educational
  program  for  youthful  operators; to limit the operation of snowmobiles
  upon public highways and private property without  the  consent  of  the
  owner;  to protect and preserve the state's natural resources, including
  its wildlife, wild forests, waters and scenic and wilderness  character;
  to  reduce  the  effect  on  the  environment of excess noise; to insure
  privacy of remote  areas;  and  to  afford  opportunity  for  compatible
  enjoyment  of  various  recreational activities on the state's lands and
  open spaces. It is the purpose of this title to  promote  the  safe  and
  proper  use  of snowmobiles for recreation and commerce in this state by
  encouraging their use and development and minimizing detrimental effects
  of such use upon the environment.
2023 New York Laws › PAR - Parks, recreation and historic preservation › Title D - Snowmobiles › Article 21 - General Provisions › 21.02 - Snowmoblile Trail Maintenance Entities.

§  21.02  Snowmobile  trail  maintenance  entities.  Snowmobile  trail
  maintenance entities play an important role  in  the  trail  system.  As
  general  guidelines, to further promote the proper and safe operation of
  snowmobiles and the other purposes as set forth in section 21.01 of this
  article, snowmobile trail maintenance entities should strive to:
1. clearly mark and delineate state designated snowmobile  trails  for
  which they are responsible;
2. encourage riders to participate in available snowmobile educational
  programs  to make riders aware of the inherent risks associated with the
  sport;
3. equip trail  maintenance  vehicles  that  they  operate  with  such
  warning implements or devices as specified by law;
4.  hold  training  sessions  each  season,  for  operators  of  trail
  maintenance equipment concerning the proper operation of such vehicles;
5. provide education  for  all  other  personnel  charged  with  trail
  maintenance,  inspection  or  patrol duties as to methods to be used for
  summoning aid in emergencies; and
6.  maintain  for  public  use  trail  area  information  showing  the
  following:    (a)  the  location of state designated trails; and (b) the
  status of each trail as open or closed. Nothing in  this  section  shall
  create a legal duty or obligation beyond that which may already exist.
2023 New York Laws › PAR - Parks, recreation and historic preservation › Title D - Snowmobiles › Article 21 - General Provisions › 21.07 - Fee for Snowmobile Trail Development and Maintenance.

§ 21.07 Fee for snowmobile trail development and maintenance. 1. A fee
  of  one hundred twenty-five dollars is hereby imposed upon the resident,
  and one hundred twenty-five dollars upon the  nonresident,  owner  of  a
  snowmobile  for the snowmobile trail development and maintenance fund to
  be paid to the commissioner of  motor  vehicles  upon  the  registration
  thereof  in addition to the registration fee required by the vehicle and
  traffic law, the  payment  of  which  fee  hereby  imposed  shall  be  a
  condition  precedent to such individual resident, individual nonresident
  or dealer registration.
2. Notwithstanding the fee as established in subdivision one  of  this
  section,  an individual resident or nonresident registering a snowmobile
  who provides proof at the time of registration, that such individual  is
  a member of an organized New York state snowmobile club that is a member
  of  the  New  York  state  snowmobile  association  or is a member of an
  organized New York state snowmobile club that  is  a  trail  maintenance
  entity  and a member of the New York state snowmobile association, shall
  pay fifty-five dollars for each  snowmobile  for  the  snowmobile  trail
  development  and  maintenance  fund  in  addition  to  the  registration
  required by the vehicle and traffic law. In the event that an individual
  seeking snowmobile club membership is unable, for any reason, to  secure
  such  club  membership,  he  or  she  may  contact  the  New  York state
  snowmobile association,  who  shall  secure  such  membership  for  such
  person.
2023 New York Laws › PAR - Parks, recreation and historic preservation › Title D - Snowmobiles › Article 25 - Control Provisions › 25.01 - Rules and Regulations.

§  25.01  Rules and regulations.  With a view of achieving maximum use
  of snowmobiles and minimizing the detrimental effect  thereof  upon  the
  environment, the commissioner shall adopt rules and regulations relating
  to and including, but not limited to the following:
1.  Use  of  snowmobiles  insofar  as  fish and wildlife resources are
  affected.
2.  Use  of  snowmobiles  on  public  lands  and  waters   under   the
  jurisdiction of the office.
3.  Uniform signs or markers to be used by governmental agencies which
  are necessary or desirable to control, direct, or regulate the operation
  and use of snowmobiles. Such signs as  may  be  designated  for  use  on
  highways shall also be approved by the commissioner of transportation.
4.  Specifications  relating  to  equipment  required  for  safety  as
  provided in section 25.17.
5. Requirements for the protection of private  property  or  interests
  therein occasioned by the use of snowmobiles.
6.  Establishment of a comprehensive snowmobile information and safety
  education and training program,  including  provision  for  issuance  of
  snowmobile  safety certificates for operation of snowmobiles by youthful
  operators.
7. Granting of permits for  and  the  conduct  of  special  events  as
  provided in section 25.11.
8.  Administration and enforcement of the provisions of section 25.13,
  relating to insurance.
9. Such other matters as may be necessary or desirable to provide  for
  the  effective  administration and enforcement of the provisions of this
  title.
2023 New York Laws › PAR - Parks, recreation and historic preservation › Title D - Snowmobiles › Article 25 - Control Provisions › 25.04 - Designation of Certain Trails.

§   25.04  Designation  of  certain  trails.  The  commissioner  shall
  designate snowmobile trails which proceed along a New York state  border
  and  which,  occasionally  as  dictated  by  terrain, cross into another
  state, in which such snowmobile is registered  and  shall  publish  such
  trail  designation in the New York state register and other publications
  accessible to the snowmobiling public and shall  make  such  designation
  available  to  law  enforcement departments which have jurisdiction over
  such trails to enable the department, such law  enforcement  departments
  and the snowmobiling public to identify which trails in the state may be
  used  by  a  nonresident  without  requiring  a  registration  of  their
  snowmobile in accordance with subdivision twelve of  section  twenty-two
  hundred twenty-two of the vehicle and traffic law.
2023 New York Laws › PAR - Parks, recreation and historic preservation › Title D - Snowmobiles › Article 25 - Control Provisions › 25.07 - Operation on Other Public Lands.

§   25.07  Operation  on  other  public  lands.  In  addition  to  the
  permissible use of highways specified in subdivision  seven  of  section
  25.05,  a county, town, city or village governing body, may by ordinance
  or local law, adopted pursuant  to  the  provisions  of  section  25.09,
  permit  the operation of snowmobiles on lands, waters and property other
  than highways, or portions thereof, of or owned  by  such  municipality.
  The provisions of this section shall not apply to operation as emergency
  vehicle.
2023 New York Laws › PAR - Parks, recreation and historic preservation › Title D - Snowmobiles › Article 25 - Control Provisions › 25.11 - Special Events.

§ 25.11 Special events.  1. The commissioner may authorize the holding
  of  special  events as defined in section 21.05. He shall adopt and may,
  from time to time, amend rules and regulations determining  the  special
  events  which  shall  be subject to permit and designating the equipment
  and facilities necessary for safe operation of snowmobiles and  for  the
  safety  of  operations,  participants,  and  observers  in  such special
  events. Whenever a special event is proposed to be held, the  person  in
  charge  thereof  shall,  at  least  fifteen  days prior thereto, file an
  application with the  commissioner  to  hold  such  special  event.  The
  application  shall  set  forth  the  date  and  location of the proposed
  special event  and  such  other  information  as  the  commissioner  may
  require,   and  such  event  shall  not  be  conducted  without  written
  authorization from the commissioner. Copies of such regulations shall be
  furnished by the  commissioner  to  any  person  making  an  application
  therefor.
2. Snowmobiles operated at special events approved by the commissioner
  pursuant  to subdivision one shall be exempt from the provisions of this
  article  concerning  mufflers  and  lights  during  the  time  of   such
  operation,  including all pre-race practice at the location of said meet
  and the provisions of article forty-seven of the vehicle and traffic law
  concerning registration.
2023 New York Laws › PAR - Parks, recreation and historic preservation › Title D - Snowmobiles › Article 25 - Control Provisions › 25.18 - Trail Grooming Equipment; Requirements.

§  25.18  Trail  grooming  equipment; requirements. Any combination of
  equipment used to maintain the snow surface of snowmobile  trails  shall
  be equipped with:
1.  a  head  light  and  tail light as required of snowmobiles in this
  article, as well as a  revolving,  rotating,  flashing,  oscillating  or
  constantly  moving  amber  lamp with a minimum candlepower of sufficient
  intensity to be plainly visible from a distance  of  five  hundred  feet
  from   the  front  and  rear  during  hours  of  darkness  under  normal
  atmospheric conditions; and
2. reflector material as required for snowmobiles.
2023 New York Laws › PAR - Parks, recreation and historic preservation › Title D - Snowmobiles › Article 25 - Control Provisions › 25.19 - Operation by Youthful Operators.

§  25.19  Operation  by  youthful  operators.  1. Age of operation. No
person under eighteen years of age shall operate a snowmobile except  as
provided  for  in  this  subdivision.  (a)  No  person  under the age of
fourteen years shall operate a snowmobile  except  upon  land  owned  or
leased  by  his  or her parent or guardian. Leased lands as used in this
section shall not include lands leased by an organization of which  said
operator or his or her parent or guardian is a member.
(b) A person ten years of age or older but less than fourteen years of
age  who  holds  a  valid  snowmobile  safety  certificate issued by the
commissioner  may  operate  a  snowmobile  on  any  lands   upon   which
snowmobiling  is  allowed if accompanied by a person over eighteen years
of age. For the purpose of this section, "accompanied" shall mean within
five hundred feet of the person over eighteen years of age.
(c) A person fourteen years of age or older  but  less  than  eighteen
years  of  age,  who  either holds a valid snowmobile safety certificate
issued by the commissioner or is accompanied by a person  over  eighteen
years  of  age,  may operate a snowmobile in the same manner as a person
over eighteen years of age.
2. Exhibition of certificate. The failure of  a  person  specified  in
subdivision  one of this section to hold a snowmobile safety certificate
issued  by  the  commissioner  to  exhibit  such  upon  demand  to   any
magistrate, peace officer, acting pursuant to his or her special duties,
police  officer,  or  other  person  having  authority  to  enforce  the
provisions of this article, shall  not  be  an  offense,  but  shall  be
presumptive  evidence  that  such  person  is  not  the  holder  of such
certificate.
3. Authorization. No owner of a snowmobile shall authorize  or  permit
the operation of his or her snowmobile within the state by any person in
violation of the provisions of this section.
2023 New York Laws › PAR - Parks, recreation and historic preservation › Title D - Snowmobiles › Article 25 - Control Provisions › 25.21 - Responsibility for Operation by Minors.

§  25.21 Responsibility for operation by minors.  1. No owner or other
  person in possession of any  snowmobile  shall  authorize  or  knowingly
  permit  any  person  under  eighteen  years  of  age  to  operate such a
  snowmobile in violation of any provision of this article, the rules  and
  regulations  of  the commissioner, or the provisions of any local law or
  ordinance.
2. No parent or guardian shall authorize or knowingly  permit  his  or
  her  child  or  ward,  if  under  eighteen  years  of  age, to operate a
  snowmobile in violation of any provision of this article, the  rules  or
  regulations  of  the  office,  or  the  provisions  of  any local law or
  ordinance.
2023 New York Laws › PAR - Parks, recreation and historic preservation › Title D - Snowmobiles › Article 25 - Control Provisions › 25.23 - Duties and Liability for Negligence.

§  25.23 Duties and liability for negligence. 1. Negligence in the use
or operation of a snowmobile shall be attributable to the  owner.  Every
owner of a snowmobile used or operated in this state shall be liable and
responsible  for  death  or  injury  to  person  or  damage  to property
resulting from negligence in the use or operation of such snowmobile  by
any  person  using or operating the same with the permission, express or
implied,  of  such  owner,  provided,  however,  that  such   operator's
negligence shall not be attributed to the owner as to any claim or cause
of  action accruing to the operator or his legal representative for such
injuries or death.
2. Duties of snowmobile owners and operators. It  is  recognized  that
snowmobiling  is a voluntary activity that may be hazardous. It shall be
the duty of snowmobile owners and operators:
(a) To keep their snowmobiles in proper working order.
(b) To follow any and all other rules of  conduct  as  are  prescribed
pursuant to section 25.03 of this article.
(c)  Not  to  operate  a  snowmobile  in  any  area not designated for
snowmobiling.
(d) Not to operate a snowmobile in a manner  beyond  their  limits  or
ability  and  speed  to  overcome  variations  in  trail  conditions and
configuration and surface or subsurface conditions which may  be  caused
or  altered  by  weather,  slope or trail maintenance work or snowmobile
use.
(e) To familiarize themselves with signage and  trail  markers  before
operating.
(f)  Not  to  snowmobile  on  a trail or portion thereof that has been
designated as "closed".
(g) Not leave the scene of any accident resulting in  personal  injury
to  another  party until such time as assistance arrives, except for the
purpose of summoning aid.
(h) Not to willfully stop on any trail where such stopping  is  likely
to impede the use of that trail by others.
(i)  Not  to  willfully  remove,  deface,  alter  or  otherwise damage
signage, warning devices or implements, or other safety devices.
2023 New York Laws › PAR - Parks, recreation and historic preservation › Title D - Snowmobiles › Article 25 - Control Provisions › 25.25 - Accidents; Reports.

§ 25.25 Accidents; reports. 1. The operator of any snowmobile involved
  in  any  accident  resulting in injuries to or death of any person or in
  which property damage in the estimated amount of one thousand dollars or
  more is sustained, shall within seven days after  such  accident  report
  the  matter in writing to the office, with a copy thereof to the sheriff
  of the county in which said  accident  occurred.  If  such  operator  is
  physically  incapable  of  making  such  report  and  there  is  another
  participant in the accident not so incapacitated, such participant shall
  make the report within the allotted time after  such  accident.  In  the
  event  that there is no other participant and the operator is other than
  the owner, then the owner shall within the prescribed  period  of  time,
  after  learning  of the facts of such accident, report the matter to the
  office, together with such information as may have come to his knowledge
  relating to such accident. Every  such  operator  of  a  snowmobile,  or
  participant  of  any  such  accident,  or  the  owner  of the snowmobile
  involved in any such accident, shall  make  such  other  and  additional
  reports as the commissioner shall require.
2.  Whenever any snowmobile meets with an accident involving a loss of
  life, personal injury or damage to property and the operator thereof has
  knowledge of such accident, he shall stop and give his name and address,
  the name and address of the owner thereof and  the  registration  number
  assigned  to  said  snowmobile  to  the  injured  person  or  the person
  sustaining the damage, or to a peace or police officer. In the event the
  person sustaining the damage is not  present  at  the  place  where  the
  damage  occurred, the operator shall, as soon as physically able, report
  the same to the nearest law enforcement agency.
3. A peace, police, or judicial officer who investigates  or  receives
  information  of  an accident involving a snowmobile shall make a written
  report of the investigation or information received, and such additional
  facts relating to the accident as may come to his knowledge and mail the
  same within forty-eight hours to the office and keep a record thereof in
  his office.
4. Failure of such persons to give notice of  any  accident  requiring
  notice  shall  be  prima  facie  evidence  that  such  accident  was not
  reported.
2023 New York Laws › PAR - Parks, recreation and historic preservation › Title D - Snowmobiles › Article 25 - Control Provisions › 25.29 - Suspension and Revocation of Certificates and Permits.

§  25.29  Suspension  and revocation of certificates and permits.  The
  commissioner may suspend or revoke a snowmobile safety certificate, or a
  permit for special events, issued pursuant to  the  provisions  of  this
  article, upon satisfactory proof of a violation of any provision of this
  article  or  of  any  rule,  regulation,  order,  local law or ordinance
  adopted  or  promulgated  pursuant  thereto.  Upon  said  suspension  or
  revocation, all rights and privileges accruing to such youthful operator
  or permittee shall terminate.
2023 New York Laws › PAR - Parks, recreation and historic preservation › Title E - Enforcement; Penalties; State Aid › Article 27 - Enforcement; Penalties; State Aid › 27.01 - Enforcement.

§  27.01 Enforcement.   Every peace officer, who is acting pursuant to
  his  special  duties,  police  officer,  conservation  officer  in   the
  department  of  environmental  conservation,  and  such employees of the
  office as may be designated  by  the  commissioner,  shall  enforce  the
  provisions  of this chapter, articles forty-seven and forty-eight of the
  vehicle and traffic law, and the laws,  ordinances,  rules,  regulations
  and  orders enacted or promulgated thereunder. Such enforcement officers
  shall be authorized to issue an appearance ticket or, in lieu thereof, a
  uniform appearance ticket and  simplified  information  as  provided  in
  section  27.03,  for any violation of this chapter, articles forty-seven
  and forty-eight of the vehicle and traffic  law,  or  rule,  regulation,
  local law or ordinance adopted thereunder.
2023 New York Laws › PAR - Parks, recreation and historic preservation › Title E - Enforcement; Penalties; State Aid › Article 27 - Enforcement; Penalties; State Aid › 27.03 - Uniform Appearance Ticket and Simplified Information.

§  27.03 Uniform appearance ticket and simplified information.  1. The
  commissioner shall prescribe  the  form  of  an  appearance  ticket  and
  simplified  information  for  all  cases  involving  a  violation of any
  provision of this chapter, articles forty-seven and forty-eight  of  the
  vehicle  and  traffic  law,  or  of  any  local  law,  ordinance,  rule,
  regulation or order adopted or promulgated thereunder, or of  any  class
  or  category  of  such  cases,  and  to  establish procedures for proper
  administrative controls over the disposition thereof.  The  commissioner
  may,  in  his  discretion,  combine  the  form of the uniform appearance
  ticket and simplified information authorized by this  section  with  the
  appearance ticket and information authorized under the navigation law.
2.  The  chief  executive officer of each local police force including
  county, town, city and village police  departments,  sheriffs,  and  the
  superintendent  of  state  police  shall prepare or cause to be prepared
  such records and reports as may be prescribed hereunder.
3. The commissioner shall have the  power  to  adopt  such  rules  and
  regulations  as  may  be deemed necessary to accomplish the purposes and
  enforce the  provisions  of  this  section  including  requirements  for
  reporting by trial courts having jurisdiction over such offenses.
4.  Any  person  who  disposes  of  any  uniform appearance ticket and
  simplified information in any other manner than that prescribed by  law,
  rule or regulation shall be guilty of a class B misdemeanor.
5.  The  provisions of this section shall not apply to any offense for
  which a uniform summons and complaint is prescribed by the  commissioner
  of  motor  vehicles pursuant to section two hundred seven of the vehicle
  and traffic law.
2023 New York Laws › PAR - Parks, recreation and historic preservation › Title E - Enforcement; Penalties; State Aid › Article 27 - Enforcement; Penalties; State Aid › 27.05 - Verification or Affirmation of Accusatory Instruments.

§  27.05  Verification  or  affirmation of accusatory instruments.  1.
  When an appearance ticket as authorized under  section  27.03  has  been
  served  by an enforcement officer specified in section 27.01, any chief,
  deputy-chief, captain, lieutenant or  acting  lieutenant,  sergeant,  or
  acting  sergeant  of  a  police  department  or of the division of state
  police, or any sheriff, undersheriff, chief deputy, or  deputy  sergeant
  in  any  county to whom the service of the appearance ticket is reported
  is hereby authorized to  administer  to  such  enforcement  officer  all
  necessary  oaths  in  connection  with  the  execution of the accusatory
  instrument to be presented in court by such enforcement officer  in  the
  prosecution of the offense involved.
2.  A simplified information need not be verified if it is affirmed by
  the issuing officer, under penalty of perjury.
2023 New York Laws › PAR - Parks, recreation and historic preservation › Title E - Enforcement; Penalties; State Aid › Article 27 - Enforcement; Penalties; State Aid › 27.07 - Pleas by Mail.

§  27.07  Pleas by mail.   A defendant charged with a violation of any
  provision of this chapter or rule, regulation, local  law  or  ordinance
  promulgated or adopted thereunder may himself plead guilty to the charge
  in open court. He may also submit to the magistrate having jurisdiction,
  in  person, by duly authorized agent, or by registered mail, a statement
  (a) that he waives arraignment in open court and the aid of counsel, (b)
  that he pleads guilty to the offense as charged, (c) that he elects  and
  requests that the charge be disposed of and the fine or penalty fixed by
  the court, (d) of any explanation that he desires to make concerning the
  offense  charged,  and (e) that he makes all statements under penalty of
  perjury. Thereupon the magistrate may proceed as  though  the  defendant
  has  been  convicted  upon  a  plea  of  guilty  in open court, provided
  however, that any imposition of  fine  or  penalty  hereunder  shall  be
  deemed  tentative  until  such  fine or penalty shall have been paid and
  discharged in full. If upon  receipt  of  the  aforesaid  statement  the
  magistrate  shall deny the same, he shall thereupon notify the defendant
  of this fact, and  that  he  is  required  to  appear  before  the  said
  magistrate  at  a stated time and place to answer the charge which shall
  thereafter be disposed of pursuant to the applicable provisions of law.
2023 New York Laws › PAR - Parks, recreation and historic preservation › Title E - Enforcement; Penalties; State Aid › Article 27 - Enforcement; Penalties; State Aid › 27.09 - Convictions; Bail Forfeitures; Failure to Appear.

§  27. 09  Convictions;  bail  forfeitures; failure to appear.  1. The
trial court or clerk thereof shall certify to the commissioner the facts
of any case involving a violation of any provision of this  chapter,  or
of  any  rule,  regulation,  local  law  or  ordinance  adopted pursuant
thereto,
(a) within five days of the date of conviction of such violation;
(b) within five days of a forfeiture of bail in such case; or
(c) within ninety days of a failure of the defendant to appear on  the
initial  date  of  appearance,  or  any adjourned date for appearance or
trial.
2. The commissioner may, by  regulation,  provide  for  the  form  and
content  of  such  certification and limit the violations for which cer-
tifications  shall  be  required.  Such  certifications  shall  be  pre-
sumptive  evidence  of  the facts therein contained and may, in the dis-
cretion of the commissioner, be recorded in the records of  the  office.
In  the  event  a  conviction which has been so recorded is subsequently
reversed, the commissioner, upon receiving  due  notice  thereof,  shall
record such fact in such records.
3.  Upon  the  conviction  of  any  person  of a violation for which a
certification must  be  made  to  the  commissioner,  pursuant  to  this
section,  the  court  or  clerk  shall also enter such conviction on any
license or certificate issued by the office if such entry is required by
the regulations of the commissioner.
2023 New York Laws › PAR - Parks, recreation and historic preservation › Title E - Enforcement; Penalties; State Aid › Article 27 - Enforcement; Penalties; State Aid › 27.11 - Offenses; Penalties.

§  27.11  Offenses;  penalties.    1.  Unless  otherwise  specifically
provided, any person who violates any provision of this chapter,  or  of
any  law, ordinance, rule, regulation or order adopted pursuant thereto,
shall be guilty of a
(a) traffic infraction,  if  such  provision,  law,  ordinance,  rule,
regulation  or  order  is  one  which  regulates traffic as specified in
section one hundred fifty-five of the vehicle and traffic law, but  does
not relate to snowmobiles.
(b) violation, for any other offense.
2. A traffic infraction shall be punishable as provided in subdivision
(b) of section one thousand eight hundred of the vehicle and traffic law
in the same manner as if the offense were a violation of the vehicle and
traffic  law.  A  violation shall be punishable as provided in the penal
law. Upon  conviction  of  a  violation  of  any  provision  of  article
twenty-five  of  this  chapter  a  court  may also require the convicted
person, as a condition of the sentence in addition to any other penalty,
to successfully complete a snowmobile  safety  course  approved  by  the
commissioner.
2023 New York Laws › PAR - Parks, recreation and historic preservation › Title E - Enforcement; Penalties; State Aid › Article 27 - Enforcement; Penalties; State Aid › 27.12 - Mandatory Surcharge Required in Certain Cases.

§ 27.12 Mandatory surcharge required in certain cases.  1. Whenever an
  administrative tribunal, empowered to do so, or a criminal court of this
  state imposes a fine or a penalty assessment or orders a bail forfeiture
  as  a penalty for violating a provision of this chapter or for violating
  a rule or regulation adopted pursuant to this chapter,  there  shall  be
  levied, in addition to any fine or penalty authorized by subdivision two
  of  section  27.11  of  this  article,  except  for  traffic infractions
  relating to motor vehicles unlawfully parked or  standing,  a  mandatory
  surcharge in the amount of fifteen dollars.
2.  Where  a  person  is convicted of two or more crimes or violations
  committed through a single  act  or  omission,  or  through  an  act  or
  omission  which  itself  constituted one of the crimes or violations and
  also was a material element of the other, the court  shall  impose  only
  one mandatory surcharge pursuant to subdivision one of this section.
3.  Any  person  who  has  paid  a mandatory surcharge pursuant to the
  provisions of this section which is  ultimately  determined  not  to  be
  required by this section shall be entitled to a refund of such mandatory
  surcharge  upon  application to the state comptroller, who shall require
  such proof as is necessary in order to determine  whether  a  refund  is
  required by law.
4. Notwithstanding any other provision of this section, where a person
  has  made  restitution  or  reparation  pursuant to section 60.27 of the
  penal law, such  person  shall  not  be  required  to  pay  a  mandatory
  surcharge.
5.  Notwithstanding  any  other  provision  of  this  section, where a
  mandatory surcharge is imposed pursuant to  the  provisions  of  section
  60.35 of the penal law or section one thousand eight hundred nine of the
  vehicle  and  traffic  law,  no  mandatory  surcharge  shall  be imposed
  pursuant to the provisions of this section.
6. Notwithstanding any other provision of  law  to  the  contrary  the
  mandatory  surcharge  provided  for  in  subdivision one of this section
  shall be paid to the clerk of the court or administrative tribunal  that
  rendered  the  conviction.  Within  the  first  ten  days  of  the month
  following  collection  of  the  mandatory  surcharge,   the   collecting
  authority  shall  determine  the amount of mandatory surcharge collected
  and pay such amount to the state  comptroller  who  shall  deposit  such
  money  in  the  miscellaneous special revenue fund to be credited to the
  agency's patron services account.
2023 New York Laws › PAR - Parks, recreation and historic preservation › Title E - Enforcement; Penalties; State Aid › Article 27 - Enforcement; Penalties; State Aid › 27.13 - Disposition of Fees and Penalties.

§  27.13  Disposition  of  fees and penalties.   1. Not later than the
  tenth  day  of  each  month,  all  fines  and  penalties  collected  for
  violations  of  this  chapter  or  rules,  regulations,  local  laws  or
  ordinances adopted thereunder under judgment  of  any  town  or  village
  court, shall be paid over by such court to the comptroller of the state,
  with  a  statement  accompanying  the  same, setting forth the action or
  proceeding in which such moneys were collected, the name  and  residence
  of  the  defendant, the nature of the offense, and the fines and penalty
  imposed.
All fines and penalties collected for violations of  this  chapter  by
  courts  operating  pursuant  to section thirty-nine of the judiciary law
  shall be paid to the state commissioner of taxation  and  finance  on  a
  monthly basis no later than ten days after the last day of each month.
2.  The commissioner shall deposit all moneys received by him from the
  sale of snowmobile publications  and  other  services  provided  by  the
  office and all fees otherwise collected by him under this chapter to the
  credit of the general fund.
2023 New York Laws › PAR - Parks, recreation and historic preservation › Title E - Enforcement; Penalties; State Aid › Article 27 - Enforcement; Penalties; State Aid › 27.15 - State Aid; Snowmobile Enforcement.

§ 27.15 State aid; snowmobile enforcement. 1. Every county, city, town
  or  village  enforcing  the  provisions  of  this  chapter  relating  to
  snowmobiles shall be  entitled  to  receive  state  aid  as  hereinafter
  provided.  A  county,  city,  town  or village seeking reimbursement for
  expenditures  incurred  in  enforcement  of  this   article,   including
  expenditures  incurred  for  signs and markers therefor, shall submit to
  the commissioner by January first of  each  year  an  estimate  of  such
  expenditures  for  the  current fiscal year, in such form and containing
  such information as the commissioner may require. Within one month after
  the close of the fiscal year, each such county, city,  town  or  village
  shall  submit to the commissioner a statement of authorized expenditures
  actually incurred, in such form and containing such  information  as  he
  may  require.  For the purpose of this section, "fiscal year" shall mean
  the period from April first through March thirty-first.
2. The amount of state aid to be allocated to counties, cities,  towns
  or  villages  shall  be  determined  by  the commissioner as hereinafter
  provided. The commissioner shall  determine  the  percentage  proportion
  which  the authorized expenditures of each individual county, city, town
  or village, but not exceeding fifty thousand  dollars  for  each  county
  including the municipalities therein, shall bear to the total authorized
  expenditures  of  all  the  counties,  cities,  towns  or  villages  for
  enforcement of such provisions during the fiscal year.  Such  percentage
  proportion  shall then be applied against an amount equal to twenty-five
  percent of the amount  received  by  the  state  in  fees  received  for
  registration  of snowmobiles during such fiscal year, to the extent only
  and not exceeding the sum of two hundred thousand  dollars.  The  amount
  thus  determined  shall  constitute  the  maximum amount of state aid to
  which each county, city, town or village shall  be  entitled.  Provided,
  however,  that  no county, city, town or village shall receive state aid
  in an amount in excess of three-quarters of its authorized  expenditures
  as  approved  by the commissioner for such fiscal year. The commissioner
  shall certify to the comptroller the amount  thus  determined  for  each
  county,  city,  town  or  village  as  the  amount  of  state  aid to be
  apportioned to such county, city, town or village.
2023 New York Laws › PAR - Parks, recreation and historic preservation › Title F - Miscellaneous › Article 29 - Miscellaneous › 29.01 - Transfer of Powers, Functions, Duties, Employees and Property.

§ 29.01 Transfer of powers, functions, duties, employees and property.
  The  powers,  functions,  duties, employees and property of any trust or
  commission abolished by this act, of any council or commission continued
  by this act, unless otherwise provided, or of the office  of  parks  and
  recreation,  are  hereby  continued  in or transferred to the office, as
  continued by this act.
2023 New York Laws › PAR - Parks, recreation and historic preservation › Title F - Miscellaneous › Article 29 - Miscellaneous › 29.03 - Continuity of Authority.

§ 29.03 Continuity of authority.  For the purpose of succession to all
  functions, powers and duties transferred to the office by the provisions
  of  this  act,  the  office  shall  be deemed and held to constitute the
  continuation of the board, trust, council or commission from which  such
  functions, powers and duties were so transferred.
2023 New York Laws › PAR - Parks, recreation and historic preservation › Title F - Miscellaneous › Article 29 - Miscellaneous › 29.05 - Completion of Unfinished Business.

§  29.05  Completion  of  unfinished business.   Any business or other
  matter  undertaken  or  commenced  by  any  board,  trust,  council   or
  commission  pertaining  to  or  connected with the functions, powers and
  duties transferred to the office by the  provisions  of  this  act,  and
  pending  on  the  effective  date  of  this  act,  may  be conducted and
  completed by the office in the same manner and under the same terms  and
  conditions  and  with  the  same effect as if conducted and completed by
  such board, trust, council or commission.
2023 New York Laws › PAR - Parks, recreation and historic preservation › Title F - Miscellaneous › Article 29 - Miscellaneous › 29.07 - Continuance of Rules and Regulations.

§ 29.07 Continuance of rules and regulations.  All rules, regulations,
  acts,  ordinances,  determinations  and  decisions  of any board, trust,
  council or commission pertaining to the  functions,  powers  and  duties
  transferred to the office, in effect at the time of such transfer, shall
  continue in force and effect as rules, regulations, acts, determinations
  and  decisions  of  the  office  until duly modified or abrogated by the
  commissioner.
2023 New York Laws › PAR - Parks, recreation and historic preservation › Title F - Miscellaneous › Article 29 - Miscellaneous › 29.09 - Terms Occurring in Laws, Contracts and Other Documents.

§  29.09  Terms  occurring in laws, contracts and other documents.  1.
  Whenever the conservation commissioner or the conservation department is
  referred to or designated in any law, contract or document pertaining to
  the functions, powers, obligations and duties previously transferred and
  assigned to the  office  of  parks  and  recreation,  and  whenever  the
  commissioner  of  parks  and  recreation  or  the  office  of  parks and
  recreation is referred to or designated in any law, contract or document
  heretofore or hereafter executed, enacted or adopted, such reference  or
  designation  shall  be  deemed  to  refer  to the commissioner of parks,
  recreation and historic preservation or the office of parks,  recreation
  and historic preservation, respectively.
2.  Whenever any board, trust, council or commission is referred to or
  designated in any law, contract or document pertaining to the functions,
  powers and duties transferred to the office by this act, such  reference
  or designation shall be deemed to refer to the commissioner.
2023 New York Laws › PAR - Parks, recreation and historic preservation › Title F - Miscellaneous › Article 29 - Miscellaneous › 29.13 - Pending Actions and Proceedings.

§  29.13  Pending  actions  and proceedings.   No action or proceeding
  pending at the time when this act  shall  take  effect,  brought  by  or
  against  any  board,  trust, council or commission and pertaining to any
  function, power or duty transferred to the office by this act, shall  be
  affected  by  any  other  provision  of  this  act,  but the same may be
  prosecuted or defended in the name of the commissioner  or  the  office,
  and  upon  application to the court, the commissioner or office shall be
  substituted as a party.
2023 New York Laws › PAR - Parks, recreation and historic preservation › Title F - Miscellaneous › Article 29 - Miscellaneous › 29.15 - Savings Clause.

§  29.15  Savings clause.   If any provision of this act shall for any
  reason be adjudged by any court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid,
  such judgment shall not  affect,  impair  or  invalidate  the  remainder
  thereof  but shall be confined in its operation to the clause, sentence,
  paragraph or part thereof directly involved in the controversy in  which
  such judgment shall have been rendered.
2023 New York Laws › PAR - Parks, recreation and historic preservation › Title G - Heritage Areas › Article 31 - General Provisions › 31.01 - Definitions.

§  31.01  Definitions. Whenever used in this title, unless a different
  meaning clearly appears from the context, the terms listed  below  shall
  have the following meanings:
1.  "Advisory  council"  shall  mean the state heritage areas advisory
  council established under article thirty-three of this title.
2. "Heritage area" shall mean a definable urban or  regional  area  of
  public and private uses ranging in size from a portion of a municipality
  to   a   regional  area  with  a  special  coherence,  such  area  being
  distinguished by physical and cultural  resources  (natural  and/or  man
  made including waterways, architecture, or artifacts reflecting a period
  of  style  or  cultural heritage) which play a vital role in the life of
  the  community  and/or  region  and  contribute  through   interpretive,
  educational  and  recreational  use  to  the public. A heritage area may
  include traditional parks (pleasure grounds set apart for recreation  of
  the  public)  and  historic  places or property on the national or state
  register of historic places but the term  heritage  area  shall  not  be
  deemed to mean a park or historic place as those terms are used in other
  provisions  of  law  including those relating to alienation of park land
  and regulation of public or private activities. Such other provisions of
  law shall continue to apply to the specific parks  and  historic  places
  within  a  heritage area. The term heritage area shall be deemed to mean
  and include areas that have been previously designated as urban cultural
  parks and heritage corridors or other similar names applied to areas  of
  special  concern  fitting  the  definition  of  heritage  area  in  this
  subdivision.
3. "Management plan" or "plan"  shall  mean  a  document  prepared  in
  conformance  with  the  provisions  of section 35.05 of this title which
  includes, but is not limited to, a  comprehensive  statement  in  words,
  maps,  illustrations,  or  other  media  of communication, setting forth
  objectives, policies, and standards to guide public and private uses for
  the preservation, interpretation,  development,  and  use  of  cultural,
  historic, natural, and architectural resources of a heritage area.
4.  "State  designated  heritage  area"  shall  mean  a  heritage area
  designated  in  section  35.03  of  this   title   for   its   statewide
  significance.
5.  "State  agency"  shall mean any state department, agency, board or
  commission of the state, or  a  public  benefit  corporation  or  public
  authority at least one of whose members is appointed by the governor.
6.  "System"  means  the New York system of heritage areas established
  pursuant to section 35.01 of this title.
2023 New York Laws › PAR - Parks, recreation and historic preservation › Title G - Heritage Areas › Article 31 - General Provisions › 31.03 - Declaration of Policy.

§  31.03  Declaration  of  policy. The urban and regional areas of the
  state  are  rich  in  cultural  and  natural  resources   of   statewide
  significance associated with our growth and attainments over time. These
  resources offer educational, inspirational and recreational benefits for
  present  and  future generations. It is hereby declared to be the policy
  of the state to preserve these resources through  their  identification,
  interpretation,  development  and  use  in  a  system  made  up of state
  designated heritage areas.
It is further the policy of the state to improve  and  coordinate  the
  plans,  functions,  powers and programs of the state, as they affect its
  urban and regional cultural and natural resources, in  cooperation  with
  the  federal government, regions, local governments and other public and
  private organizations and concerned individuals.