Opinion
July 12, 1995
Appeal from the Supreme Court, Westchester County (Fredman, J.).
Ordered that the judgment is affirmed, without costs or disbursements.
The petitioner's application was properly denied. Section 5 of article IV of the Rules and Regulations of the Westchester County Committee of the Conservative Party of New York State requires that "proxies for a meeting of the County Committee must be received by the Corresponding Secretary not less than twenty-four (24) hours before the meeting" in order to be valid. The same is not required of proxies submitted to the Executive Committee acting pursuant to article V, § 3 of those rules. In light of the "general policy of noninterference with the internal workings of a political party" and the refusal of the courts to interfere with the proper exercise of powers delegated to a political committee under particular rules ( Matter of Danielewicz v Aurigema, 90 A.D.2d 667; see, Matter of Bachmann v. Coyne, 99 A.D.2d 742), this Court will not read such a restriction into the rules of the Westchester County Committee of the Conservative Party. Mangano, P.J., Joy, Krausman and Florio, JJ., concur.