Alscot Investing Corp. v. Laibach

OPINION OF THE COURT

Memorandum.

The order of the Appellate Division should be affirmed, with costs.

*1044Only a departure in substance from the formula prescribed by statute will invalidate a municipal enactment (Quick v Town of Owego, 8 NY2d 1144, affg 11 AD2d 285, 287; see, Municipal Home Rule Law § 51; Bareham v City of Rochester, 246 NY 140, 151). The departures here claimed to invalidate are that the local law was not introduced by any member of the Village Board, that the Board had not properly voted to hold a hearing on the law, that the text of the law as adopted was not in possession of…