Thompson v. Board of Fire Commissioners

Pursuant to the eourt’s memorandum of September 4 (64 Misc 2d 477), respondent board has submitted a supplemental answer which establishes that chief’s bulletin 2-69 was not intended as an amendment of the by-laws and was never adopted as a regulation by the board. The board, nonetheless, asks that the court pass upon its right to adopt rules and regulations regarding the wearing of hair on the face of a volunteer fireman, suggesting that the board may be deemed tacitly to have approved the bulletin and adopted it as a regulation by its failure to take action on it after it was forwarded to…