Case ID: ad_266/html/0957-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Untermyer, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

(October 20, 1943.)
    In the Matter of Henry K. Astwood, Respondent, against S. Howard Cohen et al., Constituting the Board of Elections of the City of New York, Respondents, and Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association of the City of New York et al., Interveners, Appellants.
    
    
      
       Affd. with opinion 291 N. Y. 484.
    
   Order affirmed. Ho opinion. Present — Martin, P. J., Townley, Glennon, Untermyer and Dore, JJ.; Untermyer, J., dissents in opinion and votes to reverse and dismiss the petition.

Untermyer, J.

(dissenting). I am unable to find any prohibition against inclusion, by initiative and referendum, in the Hew York City Charter (1938) of provisions for a war-time salary bonus for uniformed members of the Police and Fire Departments (City Home Rule Law, § 19-a). Although subdivision 3 of section 2 of the City Home Rule Law specifies certain provisions which a “ charter ” must contain in order to be such, it does not prevent the inclusion in the charter of a city of other provisions relating to the management of its affairs. Indeed, the Hew York City Charter, as it now exists, contains provisions for the salary of certain city officers and it appears to have been a common practice, which is still reflected in the charters of other cities of the State, to include provisions regulating salaries of city employees.

The order should be reversed and the petition dismissed.