Car-Life Transmission Center of Colonie, Inc. v. Passidomo

Proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78 (transferred to this court by order of the Supreme Court at Special Term, entered in Albany County) to review a determination of the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles which suspended petitioner’s repair shop registration for five days and imposed a civil penalty of $200.

Petitioner is the operator of a licensed motor vehicle repair shop specializing in automobile transmission work. As the result of a complaint filed by one of its customers, Robert Turner, the State Department of Motor Vehicles issued a notice of hearing to petitioner alleging the following…