Dec 28, 2004 12:45 pm US/Eastern

(1010 WINS) (ALBANY) In a rare retreat for the state where local taxpayers are concerned, Gov. George Pataki has formally relinquished the state's designs on nearly $23 million in traffic fines that have traditionally flowed into local government coffers.

Pataki signed legislation rescinding the provision first included in his executive budget proposed in January that stipulated that traffic fines be paid according to the infractions motorists were first charged with instead of those they eventually were convicted of in local traffic courts.


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