Holt v. County of Tioga

Chief Judge Cooke

(dissenting). A reading of the pertinent constitutional and statutory provisions and case law reveals nothing that authorizes the County of Tioga’s enactment of Local Law No. 2 of 1978. Therefore, I respectfully dissent.

The majority finds two constitutional bases for validating the local law. First, the majority relies on a local government’s authority to legislate as to “[t]he presentation, ascertainment and discharge of claims against it” (NY Const, art IX, § 2, subd [c], par [ii], cl [5]). Reading this in conjunction with subdivision 4 of section 50-e of the General…