New York Laws
Article 20 - Suspension and Revocation
511-D - Aggravated Failure to Answer Appearance Tickets or Pay Fines Imposed.

§ 511-d. Aggravated failure to answer appearance tickets or pay fines
imposed. 1. A person is guilty of the offense of aggravated failure to
answer appearance tickets or pay fines imposed when such person has in
effect twenty or more suspensions, imposed on at least twenty separate
dates, for failure to answer, appear or pay a fine pursuant to
subdivision three of section two hundred twenty-six or subdivision
four-a of section five hundred ten of this chapter.

2. A person may be prosecuted for a violation of this section in any
court of competent jurisdiction in any county: (a) in which more than
ten tickets which resulted in suspension for failures to answer, appear
or pay fines were issued, or (b) in which the twentieth or any
subsequent ticket which resulted in a suspension for failure to answer,
appear or pay a fine was issued. The provisions of this subdivision
shall not apply to any suspension which has been terminated prior to the
defendant's being charged with a violation of this section.

3. Aggravated failure to answer appearance tickets or pay fines
imposed is a misdemeanor. When a person is convicted of this crime, the
sentence of the court must be: (i) a fine of not less than five hundred
dollars; or (ii) a term of imprisonment of not more than one hundred
eighty days; or (iii) both such fine and imprisonment.

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