2023 New York Laws › VAT - Vehicle and Traffic › Title 9 - Penalties and Disposition of Fines and Forfeitures › Article 45 - Penalties and Disposition of Fines and Forfeitures › 1809-E - Additional Surcharge Required for Certain Violations.

§ 1809-e. Additional surcharge required for certain violations. 1.  a.
  Notwithstanding  any  other  provision of law, whenever proceedings in a
  court or an administrative tribunal of this state result in a conviction
  for an offense under this  chapter,  except  a  conviction  pursuant  to
  section  eleven  hundred  ninety-two  of  this chapter, or for a traffic
  infraction under this chapter,  or  a  local  law,  ordinance,  rule  or
  regulation  adopted  pursuant  to  this  chapter,  except: (i) a traffic
  infraction involving standing, stopping, or  parking  or  violations  by
  pedestrians  or  bicyclists; and (ii) an adjudication of liability of an
  owner for a violation of  subdivision  (d)  of  section  eleven  hundred
  eleven  of  this  chapter  imposed  pursuant to a local law or ordinance
  imposing monetary liability on the owner of a vehicle for failure of  an
  operator  thereof to comply with traffic-control indications through the
  installation   and   operation   of   traffic-control    signal    photo
  violation-monitoring  systems, in accordance with article twenty-four of
  this chapter; and (iii) an adjudication of liability of an owner  for  a
  violation  of  subdivision  (b),  (c), (d), (f) or (g) of section eleven
  hundred eighty of this  chapter  imposed  pursuant  to  a  demonstration
  program  imposing  monetary  liability  on  the  owner  of a vehicle for
  failure of an operator thereof to comply with such posted maximum  speed
  limits  through  the installation and operation of photo speed violation
  monitoring systems, in accordance with article thirty of  this  chapter;
  and (iv) an adjudication of liability of an owner for a violation of bus
  lane  restrictions  as  defined  by  article twenty-four of this chapter
  imposed pursuant to  a  bus  rapid  transit  program  imposing  monetary
  liability  on  the owner of a vehicle for failure of an operator thereof
  to comply with such bus lane restrictions through the  installation  and
  operation  of  bus  lane  photo  devices,  in  accordance  with  article
  twenty-four of this chapter; and (v) an adjudication of liability of  an
  owner  for a violation of toll collection regulations imposed by certain
  public  authorities  pursuant  to  the  law  authorizing   such   public
  authorities  to  impose monetary liability on the owner of a vehicle for
  failure  of  an  operator  thereof  to  comply  with   toll   collection
  regulations  of  such  public  authorities  through the installation and
  operation of photo-monitoring systems, in accordance  with  section  two
  thousand  nine  hundred  eighty-five  of  the  public authorities law or
  sections sixteen-a, sixteen-b and sixteen-c  of  chapter  seven  hundred
  seventy-four  of  the  laws  of  nineteen  hundred  fifty;  and  (vi) an
  adjudication of liability of an owner for a violation of section  eleven
  hundred  seventy-four  of  this chapter when meeting a school bus marked
  and equipped as provided in  subdivisions  twenty  and  twenty-one-c  of
  section three hundred seventy-five of this chapter imposed pursuant to a
  local  law  or  ordinance  imposing monetary liability on the owner of a
  vehicle for failure of an operator thereof to comply with school bus red
  visual signals through the installation  and  operation  of  school  bus
  photo   violation   monitoring   systems,  in  accordance  with  article
  twenty-nine of this chapter; and (vii) an adjudication of  liability  of
  an  owner  for  a violation of section three hundred eighty-five of this
  chapter and the rules of the department of transportation of the city of
  New York  in  relation  to  gross  vehicle  weight  and/or  axle  weight
  violations  imposed  pursuant to a weigh in motion demonstration program
  imposing monetary liability on the owner of a vehicle for failure of  an
  operator  thereof  to  comply with such gross vehicle weight and/or axle
  weight restrictions through the installation and operation of  weigh  in
  motion  violation  monitoring systems, in accordance with article ten of
  this chapter; and (viii) an adjudication of liability of an owner for  a
  violation  of subdivision (b), (d), (f) or (g) of section eleven hundred
  eighty of this chapter  imposed  pursuant  to  a  demonstration  program

  imposing  monetary liability on the owner of a vehicle for failure of an
  operator thereof to comply with such posted maximum speed limits  within
  a highway construction or maintenance work area through the installation
  and operation of photo speed violation monitoring systems, in accordance
  with  article  thirty  of  this  chapter;  and  (ix)  an adjudication of
  liability of an owner for a violation of bus  operation-related  traffic
  regulations  as  defined  by article twenty-four of this chapter imposed
  pursuant to a demonstration program imposing monetary liability  on  the
  owner  of  a  vehicle  for failure of an operator thereof to comply with
  such bus operation-related traffic regulations through the  installation
  and operation of bus operation-related photo devices, in accordance with
  article  twenty-four  of this chapter, there shall be levied in addition
  to any sentence, penalty or other surcharge  required  or  permitted  by
  law, an additional surcharge of twenty-eight dollars.
b. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, whenever proceedings in
  a  court of this state result in a conviction pursuant to section eleven
  hundred ninety-two of this chapter or subparagraphs (ii)  and  (iii)  of
  paragraph (a) of subdivision two or subparagraph (i) of paragraph (a) of
  subdivision  three of section five hundred eleven of this chapter, there
  shall be levied, in addition to any sentence or other surcharge required
  or permitted by law, an additional  surcharge  of  one  hundred  seventy
  dollars.
2.  The  additional surcharges 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 such surcharges, the collecting  authority
  shall  pay  such  money  to the state comptroller to be deposited to the
  general fund; provided, however, commencing April  first,  two  thousand
  twenty-four,  the  surcharge  provided for in paragraph b of subdivision
  one of this section shall be paid to counties in  such  manner  and  for
  such  purposes as provided for in section eleven hundred ninety-seven of
  this chapter.
3. The provisions of subdivision four-a of section five  hundred  ten,
  subdivision three of section five hundred fourteen and subdivision three
  of  section  two  hundred twenty-seven of this chapter governing actions
  which may be taken for failure  to  pay  a  fine  or  penalty  shall  be
  applicable to the additional surcharge imposed pursuant to this section.