Richmond Hill Service Station, Inc. v. New York State Department of Motor Vehicles

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 the Department of Motor Vehicles which suspended petitioner’s motor vehicle repair shop registration and imposed a fine. Petitioner is a licensed motor vehicle repair shop. On or about April 19, 1980, employees of respondent State Department of Motor Vehicles installed a blown fuse in a 1976 Hornet automobile which caused the alternator light to go on and brought the vehicle to petitioner for repair.…