A town justice in central New York has been censured for trying to fix a traffic ticket for an acquaintance, the New York State Commission on Judicial Conduct said Thursday.

James Aluzzi, who has presided over Volney Town Court in Oswego County since 2003, was disciplined for trying to get another judge to toss a tinted-windows ticket for a local businessman who sought his help.

According to the commission, Aluzzi asked an office assistant at Fulton City Court, where the case was pending, to give the ticket to the judge handling the case and “have him dismiss it for me.”