Both New York State and your home state of north Carolina are members of the Drivers License Compact (DLC). This agreement allows these states to inform the licensing state of a motorist when the person has been convicted of a traffic violation out of state.

Thus the NYS courts will inform the NC Division of Motor Vehicles about your ticket for failure to yield if you plead guilty, thus are convicted of the offense, and pay the fine.

According to the NCDOT Division of Motor Vehicles, if you are convicted of certain moving violations which take place within the State of North Carolina, driver license points are placed against your record. The DMV does not mention points for out of state offenses.

The DMV does state that convictions occurring outside NC may result in your license being suspended or revoked if the violation would have resulted in these penalties if the offenses had taken place in North Carolina.

You will need to check with the NCDOT to find out for certain if points will be assigned for your New York citation. If DMV points are assessed it would be according to the NC points system which lists following failure to yield as a 3 point offense.

If your rates rise due to this out of state ticket you may want to shop around for better auto insurance rates.