Tipon v. Appeals Board of the Administrative Adjudication Bureau

This is an article 78 proceeding to review alleged jurisdictional and constitutional defects in an administrative adjudication of a speeding charge commenced by use of a simplified traffic information. At the outset it should be understood that we deal here with a charge of speeding which is an infraction and not a crime. (See Vehicle and Traffic Law, former § 56, subd 1; former § 2, subd 29; present § 155.) It is the defendant’s, here petitioner’s, contention that the administrative tribunal was without jurisdiction in that the uniform traffic ticket was not supplemented by a duly verified…