A Notice of Violation (ticket) is a legal notice. It may charge you with breaking a rule or law from the City's Administrative Code or the Rules of the City of New York. Or it may charge you with failing to follow sections of various other laws that protect health, safety and a clean environment.

You can search for information about a ticket and the ECB hearing by using the NYC Business Express website. Once registered, users can search for ticket information by:

• Name
• Address
• Ticket number

On the site you can:

For help accessing ECB information once registered with the site, please click here.

• View, print, download a copy of the ticket
• Pay for the ticket
• Learn the location, date and time of the hearing
• See the status of the ticket
• Learn the outcome of the hearing

A ticket contains the following information:

• The section of law that the notice claims you have violated
• The date, time, and place of the violation
• The ticket writer's name
• How and where to respond to the ticket
• The date and time you may come to ECB for a hearing
• The most you will have to pay if you are guilty

Your ticket may also list the local ECB branch (Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, or Staten Island) for your hearing. Or the ECB office address where you should appear may be circled on the back of the ticket. If your ticket does not tell you which ECB office to go to, you may come to any ECB office on the date and at the time stated on your ticket. In some instances, ECB may change your hearing date. If that happens, ECB will send you a letter. The letter will tell you the new hearing date.

Tickets for different violations may look different. But, they will contain the same general information.