Opinion
2014-05-14
In the Matter of Michael PARIETTI, et al., petitioners-respondents, v. Christian G. SAMPSON, etc., et al., appellants, Rockland County Board of Elections, et al., respondents.
Michael L. Klein, Town Attorney, Suffern, N.Y., for appellants. Michael Parietti, Suffern, N.Y., and Robert Romanowski, Monsey, N.Y., petitioners-respondents pro se (one brief filed).
Michael L. Klein, Town Attorney, Suffern, N.Y., for appellants. Michael Parietti, Suffern, N.Y., and Robert Romanowski, Monsey, N.Y., petitioners-respondents pro se (one brief filed).
Thomas E. Humbach, County Attorney, New City, N.Y. (Thomas Simeti of counsel), for respondents (no brief filed).
In related proceedings, in effect, pursuant to Election Law article 16 to validate two petitions to hold referenda on propositions to increase the number of members of the Town Council of the Town of Ramapo from four to six and to establish a ward system for the election of members to the Town Council of the Town of Ramapo, respectively, Christian G. Sampson, as Town Clerk of the Town of Ramapo, and the Town of Ramapo, appeal, by permission, from an order of the Supreme Court, Rockland County (Garvey, J.), dated June 18, 2013, which, inter alia, denied their motions to vacate two orders of the same court both dated March 7, 2003, vacating two prior orders, both dated November 19, 2012, dismissing the proceedings without prejudice, and to dismiss the petitions as time-barred.
ORDERED that the order dated June 18, 2013, is affirmed, with costs to the petitioners-respondents.
For the reasons stated in a companion appeal ( see Matter of Parietti v. Sampson, 117 A.D.3d 827, 986 N.Y.S.2d 160, 2014 WL 1910504 [Appellate Division Docket No. 2013–04537; decided herewith] ), the appellants' sole contention on this appeal is without merit. ENG, P.J., MILLER, HINDS–RADIX and MALTESE, JJ., concur.