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NYC v. PATROLMEN'S ASSN.

89 N.Y.2d 380 (1996)

676 N.E.2d 847

654 N.Y.S.2d 85

City of New York et al., Respondents, v. Patrolmen's Benevolent Association of the City of New York, Inc., et al., Appellants, and New York State Public Employment Relations Board et al., as Necessary Party Respondents; Dennis C. Vacco, as Attorney-General of the State of New York, Intervenor-Appellant.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided December 19, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lysaght, Lysaght & Kramer, P. C., Lake Success (James J. Lysaght and Elliot I. Susser of counsel), for appellants.

Dennis C. Vacco, Attorney-General, New York City (Thomas D. Hughes, Barbara Gott Billet and Lucia M. Valente of counsel), intervenor-appellant pro se.

Paul A. Crotty, Corporation Counsel of New York City (Marilyn Richter, Pamela Seider Dolgow, Alan M. Schlesinger and Linda H. Young of counsel), for respondents.

Gary Johnson, Albany, for New York State Public Employment Relations Board, necessary party respondent.

Victoria A. Donoghue, New York City, and Wendy E. Patitucci for Board of Collective Bargaining of the City of New York and another, necessary party respondents.

Chief Judge KAYE and Judges SIMONS, TITONE, BELLACOSA, SMITH and CIPARICK concur.

LEVINE, J.

The issue presented by this appeal is whether chapter 13 of the Laws of 1996 is unconstitutional because it was not enacted in compliance with the home rule requirements of article IX, § 2 of the State Constitution. We conclude that because this "special law," which relates to the "property, affairs or government" of New York City, was not enacted to further a matter "of sufficient importance...

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