Headlight Out Ticket

[LifeExperience]

My question involves vehicle maintenance laws for the State of: New York

Okay, so there are two pages and the first one has stuff about pleading guilty or not guilty and the second one has a correction form. I'm planning on getting it signed by a mechanic. A few questions...

1. Do I plea guilty or not guilty? or do I not plea anything? The officer told me to plea guilty. It says that it will be dismissed if I get it fixed before 1/2 hour sunset but how can it be dismissed if I'm already convicted? (It says pleading guilty is the same as conviction after trial). It my mind it doesn't seem like a good idea but I'm not sure what will happen if I plead not guilty or don't write anything.

2. Is the time limit just for the correction? I don't have to rush out and make sure it gets to where it needs to go by around sunset do I? Seems like that would be unreasonable.

3. Where am I mailing this to? But it probably says somewhere on the form, I haven't read it thoroughly.

4. What's the best way to become friends with a lawyer? How can my whole family not have someone they know in the legal practice.

Thanks, the first question is the most important!

[Mr. Knowitall]

Read the citation, and follow the instructions on the citation. We don't have any access to the documents you were given.

You seem to be confusing the officer's instruction that you should not drive your car during hours in which you are legally obligated to have functioning headlights until after you get your headlight fixed with the deadline for establishing to the court that you have fixed the problem and are thus seeking a dismissal.

You obviously don't want to plead guilty if you hope to get the ticket dismissed based upon your fixing the headlight. You would want to fix the headlight and document the repair to the court on time, such that you get a dismissal.

[LifeExperience]

No, I wasn't confusing it, I was just making sure that wasn't the case. Anyways, there was nothing on there that I had to pay anything. I had the headlight bulb replaced the next day. And the officer and town clerk told me to put guilty down as a plea. So, if that wasn't what I was suppossed to do and I all of a sudden get a ticket in the mail then I was seriously screwed by the town. But hopefully everything will work out.