Legal Opinion
Opn. No.
New York Attorney General Reports
Decided September 21, 1982Published
1Opinion of the Court
S. Richard Gross, Esq. Village Attorney, Liberty
You have asked whether a village may reduce the salary of the office of village justice during the abbreviated terms of those appointed and elected to fill out the unexpired term of a justice who has resigned.
Based upon your letter and a telephone conversation with this office, we understand that your village board established an annual salary of $8,560 for the office of village justice by including that salary in the regular village budget adopted by resolution and not by local law. Thereafter, the board reduced that salary to $6,000 during the…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- City of Troy Unit v. City of TroyAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1971
- Bogacki v. ZolemskiNew York Supreme Court · 1932
- Duci v. RobertsAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1978
- Claim of Patane v. E. B. Carley & Co.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1954