Defending a Traffic Ticket in Rye, New York
Getting a speeding ticket in Rye, NY is very confusing because the first question you have to ask yourself is ‘where am I anyhow, and what agency gave me this ticket?’ This is because if you have a ticket that has a court of “Rye” written on it, you could be in the Rye City Court or the Rye Town Court, which are two totally different jurisdictions. Furthermore, you could have been issued your speeding ticket, red light infraction, or moving violation by one of the following agencies:
- Rye City Police
- Village of Rye Brook Police
- Village of Port Chester Police
- Mamaroneck Town Police
- Mamaroneck Village Police
- Port Chester Village Police
- New York State Police
- Westchester County Police
- SUNY Purchase Police / Public Safety Officer
Moreover, you may not even have committed your stop sign violation, lane change violation, or speeding violation in either the City or Town of Rye, New York. This is because the Rye Town Court has jurisdiction in parts of the Village of Port Chester, Rye Brook, and the Rye Neck section of Mamaroneck, New York.
The Playland Boardwalk and Beach in the City of Rye, New York
First line of defense in a Rye, NY Speeding Ticket
The first thing we review to defend a New York Speeding Ticket written in or around Rye, NY is whether the police officer returned the ticket to the correct court. A New York Traffic Court has no subject matter jurisdiction, i.e., authority, to hear a speeding ticket, lane change violation, stop sign ticket, red light ticket, or any other moving violation unless the violation occurred within its geographical area. A ticket returned to the wrong court MUST be dismissed by that court for lack of subject matter jurisdiction.
For example, only certain tickets written in the Rye Neck Section of Mamaroneck, NY are properly returnable to the Rye Town Court. Other speeding tickets should be returned to either the Mamaroneck, NY Village Court or the Mamaroneck New York Town Court. Likewise, a Port Chester Police Officer could issue you a ticket and return it to the Rye Town, New York Court in error, as it should be properly before the Port Chester, NY Village Court. A New York State Trooper may mistakenly return your failure to yield to an emergency vehicle ticket (New York’s “Move Over” law, NY VTL § 1144-A) to the Rye NY City Court when the ticket was properly returned to the Rye New York Town Court. A SUNY Purchase Police Officer may return a stop sign ticket to the Rye Town Court when it should have been properly before the Harrison, NY Town / Village Court. Likewise, a Westchester County Police Officer may give you a speeding ticket [ NY VTL § 1180] on the Hutchinson River Parkway and return the moving violation to the Rye Town Court when it should have been properly returned to the Port Chester, NY Village Court.
And one of the above agencies could write you a ticket to the Rye City or Town Court
When you retain our law firm to defend your speeding ticket in Rye, New York, or Port Chester, New York, or the Town or Village of Mamaroneck, NY or in Harrison New York, or anywhere in the state of New York our law firm will:
- Go to court for you
- Deal with you by e-mail, fax, and phone so that you do not have to come to our office.
You will not lose time from work or school by having to come to our office or go to court we do EVERYTHING for you, plus we give a money back guarantee to reduce or eliminate the points.
Local Courts in and around Rye, New York
Rye City Court 21 McCullough Pl. Rye, NY 10580
Rye Town Court 10 Pearl Street Port Chester, NY 10573
Port Chester Village Court 350 N. Main Street Port Chester, NY 10573
Mamaroneck Village Court 169 Mt. Pleasant Av. Mamaroneck, NY 10543
Mamaroneck Town Court 740 W. Boston Post Road Mamaroneck, NY 10543
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