Nassau County Traffic Tickets

If you have been issued a Nassau County traffic ticket, you may be thinking about contacting a Nassau County traffic ticket attorney. Many people wonder if fighting a Nassau traffic ticket is worth it. For some people, a Nassau traffic ticket can have a significant impact on their career. Professional drivers with commercial driver’s licenses can be severely impacted by even minor traffic violations. Professional drivers can only accumulate a certain number of points or else face losing their commercial license, job, and career.

For the average person who does not drive much for work, a Nassau County traffic ticket can affect their finances due to increased insurance rates, court costs, and fines, such as a DMV driver responsibility assessment. Fighting a Nassau County traffic ticket can sometimes be less expensive than pleading guilty and paying for increased insurance rates and fines if the defense is successful and the case is dismissed.

Where Nassau County Traffic Tickets Are Heard

If you receive a Nassau County traffic ticket, most likely you will be directed to respond to the Nassau County Traffic and Parking Violations Agency (“NCTPVA”) located at 801 Axinn Avenue, Garden City, NY. Alternatively, if the village police officer stops you on Long Island, you may receive a Nassau traffic ticket returnable to a Village Justice Court. Our firm is very experienced in handling both types of courts. Our attorneys regularly handle traffic tickets here. They are very experienced in dealing with traffic prosecutors and appearing before the NCTPVA judges and village justice courts.

How Nassau Differs From New York City Traffic Court

Unlike in the five boroughs of New York City, where traffic tickets are returnable to the local Traffic Violations Bureaus, where there are no prosecutors and no ability to engage in plea bargaining, NCTPVA employs traffic prosecutors who can confer with the cases related to Nassau County traffic tickets with the defendants or their attorneys and reach a favorable disposition. Moreover, NCTPVA allows attorneys representing clients with Nassau County traffic tickets to appear in Court without their clients and resolve their tickets. In the rare instances of the especially egregious charge and/or bad driver’s records, the NCTPVA Judge may request a traffic attorney to return to Court with their client so the Judge may reprimand the client and ensure that the motorist takes these charges and their consequences seriously.

Reducing Points and Fines

Suppose your driving record is clean and your Nassau traffic ticket is not a very high speed or some other severe charge. In that case, an experienced traffic attorney will likely be able to negotiate with the traffic prosecutor a favorable disposition of your Nassau County traffic ticket with zero points and some fines. Even in the case of high speeding tickets, it is possible to negotiate a reduction to a low-point non-speeding ticket in some instances. Please note that NCTPVA will always run your New York State lifetime driving abstract. Moreover, they will see the original charges, including the pending unresolved charges anywhere in the State of New York, and any resulting convictions, as well as suspensions and revocations.

Out-of-State and Commercial Drivers

Sometimes we get calls from the long-distance truck drivers who are not residents of the State of New York and for whom it is difficult to appear in person in Court. An experienced Nassau County traffic attorney can appear on such a client’s behalf and resolve a Nassau County traffic ticket without the client’s presence. Often, such Nassau County traffic tickets involve various trucking equipment violations. We will discuss such violations with you and advise you regarding how to provide proof of corrections for such equipment violations to minimize the court fines and surcharges, or even have all tickets dismissed if the repairs are done quickly.

Fighting a Ticket When the Proof Is Weak

There are various approaches to obtaining favorable results for our clients. Some cases cannot be proven in court. A police officer only needs probable cause to issue a ticket, which is a much lower standard than reasonable doubt. Sometimes officers make mistakes because of incorrect observations and mistakes about the law. An attorney may be able to help a person fight a Nassau County traffic ticket when there is insufficient proof.

Unanswered Tickets and License Suspension

If you do not answer a traffic ticket by the date on the ticket, the DMV can suspend your driver’s license. Many drivers do not learn about the suspension until they are stopped again. Driving while your license is suspended can lead to a criminal charge of aggravated unlicensed operation in the third degree (VTL § 511), a misdemeanor, in addition to the original ticket. Paying the old tickets after the arrest does not make the criminal charge go away. See our articles on driving with a suspended license and failing to answer a traffic ticket.

Nassau County Traffic and Parking Violations Agency (NCTPVA)

• Address: 801 Axinn Avenue, Garden City, NY 11530
• Agency phone: 516-572-2700
• Website: Nassau County Traffic and Parking Violations Agency

Tickets written by village police officers may be returnable to a Village Justice Court instead. The ticket shows where to answer. For traffic tickets in the five boroughs, see our guide to traffic violations in New York. We meet Nassau County clients at our Hempstead office, 50 Main Street.

Speak With a Nassau County Traffic Ticket Lawyer

If you have questions about fighting your traffic ticket, contact Sharifov & Associates, PLLC. Hiring a Nassau County traffic ticket lawyer can help you get a better deal than you could have on your own and may even help you save your license or get your case dismissed.