Potash v. Molik

This appeal presents the question of the sufficiency of the authentication of a petition for a referendum under section 16 of the City Home Rule Law, with respect to a local law increasing the salaries of the councilmen of the City of Buffalo during their terms of office. Under section 17 of the City Home Rule Law, the local law was subject to a permissive referendum. Section 16 of the City Home Rule Law provides that in the case of a local law falling within section 17, a referendum shall be held “ if within forty-five days after its adoption there be filed with the city clerk a petition…