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Frank v. Levitt

Court of Appeals of the State of New York
Jun 7, 1979
47 N.Y.2d 853 (N.Y. 1979)

Opinion

Argued May 3, 1979

Decided June 7, 1979

Appeal from the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the Second Judicial Department, B. THOMAS PANTANO, J.

Robert Abrams, Attorney-General (Robert S. Hammer and Samuel A. Hirshowitz of counsel), for Arthur Levitt, as State Comptroller, appellant.

Allen M. Kranz for James R. Sutton and others, appellants.

Edward G. McCabe, County Attorney (Joshua A. Elkin and William S. Norden of counsel), for respondents.

John W. Park, Corporation Counsel (Kenneth Auerbach of counsel), for City of Binghamton, amicus curiae.


MEMORANDUM.

The order of the Appellate Division should be reversed, without costs, and the proceeding dismissed.

Petitioner seeks judicial review of determinations of the State Comptroller with respect to applications for benefits under the Policemen's and Firemen's Retirement System and of the Comptroller's underlying position that an application for ordinary disability retirement allowance for a policeman member of the system may not be made by the head of the department in which the policeman member is employed without his consent (Retirement and Social Security Law, § 362, subd a). Subdivision d of section 374 of the Retirement and Social Security Law provides that determinations of the Comptroller "shall be subject to review only as provided in article seventy-eight of the civil practice law and rules" (emphasis added). Accordingly, the present application for judicial relief, denominated an action for a declaratory judgment, should have been treated as an article 78 proceeding (CPLR 103, subd [c]). As such it should have been dismissed on respondents' motion, on the ground that the proceeding as to George Pearsall was barred by the four-month Statute of Limitations (CPLR 217) and for failure to exhaust administrative remedies as to the other police officers involved.

Chief Judge COOKE and Judges JASEN, GABRIELLI, JONES, WACHTLER and FUCHSBERG concur in memorandum.

Order reversed, etc.


Summaries of

Frank v. Levitt

Court of Appeals of the State of New York
Jun 7, 1979
47 N.Y.2d 853 (N.Y. 1979)
Case details for

Frank v. Levitt

Case Details

Full title:LOUIS J. FRANK, as Commissioner of the Nassau County Police Department, et…

Court:Court of Appeals of the State of New York

Date published: Jun 7, 1979

Citations

47 N.Y.2d 853 (N.Y. 1979)