ALBANY – Allowing the state Legislature to dictate the terms of expanding street-hail taxi service throughout New York City at the behest of Mayor Michael Bloomberg would be an "affront" to 75 years of city-controlled regulation of the taxi industry, an attorney for cab companies argued yesterday at the Court of Appeals.
Randy Mastro told the six members of the court that the "home rule" tradition under the state Constitution has always demanded that the Legislature can only act on a public policy matter pertaining to the city with the prior assent of the City Council through its passage of a "home rule message."
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