Opinion
September 26, 1994
Appeal from the Family Court, Kings County (Cozier, J.).
Ordered that the order of disposition is reversed, on the law, and the petition is dismissed, without costs or disbursements.
Family Court Act § 311.1 provides, in pertinent part, that a petition must include "a plain and concise factual statement in each count which, without allegations of an evidentiary nature, asserts facts supporting every element of the crime charged and the respondent's commission thereof" (Family Ct Act § 311.1 [h]). A petition is facially sufficient when, inter alia, "non-hearsay allegations of the factual part of the petition or of any supporting depositions establish, if true, every element of each crime charged and the respondent's commission thereof" (Family Ct Act § 311.2). "A petition which does not substantially conform to the requirements of sections 311.1 and 311.2 is defective and subject to dismissal (Family Ct Act § 315.1 [a]; [2])" (Matter of Rodney J., 83 N.Y.2d 503, 507).
The petition and the supporting documents in this case are jurisdictionally defective on their face because they do not contain a nonhearsay allegation regarding the operability of the weapon, and the supporting deposition of the arresting officer is silent regarding this element of the crimes charged (see, Matter of Rodney J., supra). Accordingly, the order of the Family Court is reversed, and the petition is dismissed. Bracken, J.P., Sullivan, Miller and Hart, JJ., concur.