Arditti v. Jacobson

This is an application to require the City Clerk and the Corporation Counsel of the City of Long Beach in the county of Nassau to take the action prescribed in sections 18 and 19-a of the City Home Eule Law so- that a proposed local law will be submitted to the voters at the coming election. The Corporation Counsel and City Clerk have declined to give consideration to the proposed law because in their judgment it is improper in form. Specifically, they contend that the proposed local law seeks to set up a new charter for the city whereas the proponents of the movement have proceeded upon the…