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Failure to Comply with Service Method in Order to Show Cause Required Dismissal

In a proceeding under the Election Law to invalidate a petition designating a candidate, the Second Department determined dismissal was appropriate based upon the failure to comply the service method prescribed in an order to show cause:

“The method of service provided for in an order to show cause is jurisdictional in nature and must be strictly complied with” … . Service within the statutory period by means other than those authorized by the order to show cause does not bring a respondent within the court’s jurisdiction … . Here, the subject order to show cause provided that service thereof and of “the papers upon which it [was] granted” upon the candidate Ivy Reeves was to be effectuated by (1) “sending the same by overnight, next-day delivery by UPS, FEDEX or the U.S. Postal Service on or before the 22nd day of July, 2013”; “or” (2) “by personal delivery of the same to [Ivy Reeves] on or before July 23, 2013, no later than 7:00 p.m.” It is undisputed that the petitioners did not attempt to personally deliver the papers to Reeves, and that copies of both the order to show cause and petition to invalidate were not delivered to Reeves’s address until July 24, 2013. The petitioners submitted evidence that, at 9:30 p.m. on July 22, 2013, they deposited a prepaid United States Postal Service “Priority Mail Express” envelope containing these documents in a mail slot located inside a publicly accessible vestibule of a post office, after the post office itself had closed. The record established that an envelope deposited at that time would not have been collected, scanned, and prepared for delivery by postal employees until 7:00 a.m. on the following day. Matter of Rotanelli v Board of Elections of Westchester County, 2013 NY Slip Op 05657, 2nd Dept 8-15-13

 

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