Opinion
January 19, 1979
Appeal from the Monroe Supreme Court.
Present — Moule, J.P., Simons, Dillon, Hancock, Jr., and Schnepp, JJ.
Judgment unanimously affirmed, with costs. Memorandum: We affirm for the reasons stated at Special Term (Livingston, J.). (See Matter of Ballard Constr. v. Ross, 63 A.D.2d 99; Matter of Expert Elec. v. Goldin, 51 A.D.2d 763.) We reject respondents-appellants' argument that chapter 336 of the Laws of 1978, amending section 220 Lab. of the Labor Law, should be applied retroactively. Any suggestion that the Legislature intended that the amendment be so applied is negated by section 4 of chapter 336 which states that the amendment "shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall have become a law." (See Matter of Deutsch v Catherwood, 31 N.Y.2d 487; Matter of Ayman v. Teachers' Retirement Bd. of City of N.Y., 9 N.Y.2d 119.)