Padmore v. New York City Department of Building

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Alexander W. Hunter, Jr., J.), entered April 11, 2012, which denied petitioner’s CPLR article 78 petition challenging the New York City Department of Building’s (DOB) determination, dated May 24, 2011, denying his application for a master plumber’s license and dismissed the proceeding, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

Petitioner mischaracterizes the DOB’s determination in contending that the DOB was improperly reading a nonexistent permit-submission requirement into former Administrative Code of the City of New York § 26-146 (a) (1) (cf. Matter of…