Ordered that the appeals by the third-party defendants Nassau County Board of Assessors, Assessment Review Commission of the County of Nassau, County Treasurer, and County Legislature of the County of Nassau from the five orders entered July 26, 2012, are dismissed, without costs or disbursements, as those parties are not aggrieved by the portions of the orders appealed from; and it is further,
Ordered that the appeal from so much of the orders entered December 3, 2012, as denied that branch of the third-party defendants' motion which was for leave to reargue is dismissed, without costs or disbursements, as no appeal lies from an order denying reargument (see Schiano v Mijul, Inc., 79 A.D.3d 726 [2010]; Nicoletti v City of New York, 77 A.D.3d 715, 716 [2010]; Weiss v Deloitte & Touche, LLP, 63 A.D.3d 1045, 1047 [2009]); and it is further,
Ordered that the five orders entered July 26, 2012, are modified, on the law, by deleting the provisions thereof directing the third-party defendant County of Nassau to pay the plaintiff all sums that the defendants/third-party plaintiffs had been directed to pay the plaintiff for refunds of tax payments made in connection with levies for the subject special ad valorem taxes, and substituting therefor provisions directing the third-party defendant County of Nassau to reimburse and indemnify the defendants/third-party plaintiffs for all sums that the defendants/third-party plaintiffs had been directed to pay the plaintiff for refunds of tax payments made in connection with levies for the subject special ad valorem taxes; as so modified, the orders entered July 26, 2012, are affirmed insofar as appealed from by the third-party defendant County of Nassau, without costs or disbursements; and it is further,
Ordered that the five orders entered December 3, 2012, are affirmed insofar as reviewed, without costs or disbursements.
New York Telephone Company, now known as Verizon New York, Inc. (hereinafter Verizon), commenced five actions challenging the imposition of special ad valorem taxes for garbage and refuse collection services on their "mass" property situated within the Town of Hempstead. In the context of these appeals, the term "mass property" refers to equipment such as lines, wires, cables, poles, supports, and enclosures for electrical
The third-party defendants moved to dismiss the third-party complaints pursuant to CPLR 3211 (a), and the Town defendants cross-moved, inter alia, for summary judgment directing the third-party defendants to pay Verizon any and all refund sums directly, and permanently enjoining the third-party defendants from imposing special ad valorem taxes on Verizon's mass property. In orders entered July 26, 2012, the Supreme Court, among other things, denied the third-party defendants' motion to dismiss the third-party complaints, and granted those branches of the Town defendants' cross motion which were for summary judgment directing the County to pay the refunds directly to Verizon and permanently enjoining the County and the Assessor from imposing the taxes in the future. The third-party defendants moved for leave to renew and reargue pursuant to CPLR 2221 and, in orders entered December 3, 2012, the Supreme Court denied that motion. The third-party defendants appeal from the orders entered July 26, 2012, and the orders entered December 3, 2012. Verizon cross-appeals from the orders entered July 26, 2012, arguing that, in directing the County to pay it directly rather than to indemnify the Town, the court awarded Verizon relief that it did not seek and that is inconsistent with the complaint and the relief sought against the Town.
Verizon and the third-party defendants correctly contend that
The County also argues that it should be relieved of liability for these refunds because, due to the County's precarious financial situation, paying these refunds will result in "fiscal chaos." For the reasons stated in Keyspan Generation, LLC v Nassau County (115 A.D.3d 812 [2014] [decided herewith]), this contention lacks merit (see Foss v City of Rochester, 65 N.Y.2d 247, 260 [1985]; Matter of Hellerstein v Assessor of Town of Islip, 37 N.Y.2d 1, 13-14 [1975]; Matter of Andresen v Rice, 277 N.Y. 271, 282 [1938]; Gandolfi v City of Yonkers, 101 A.D.2d 188, 197-198 [1984], affd 62 N.Y.2d 995 [1984]; Hurd v City of Buffalo, 41 A.D.2d 402, 406 [1973], affd 34 N.Y.2d 628 [1974]).
The Supreme Court properly denied that branch of the third-party defendants' motion which sought leave to renew, since it was not based upon new facts that would have changed the prior determination or a change in law, and since the third-party defendants failed to proffer a reasonable justification for their failure to proffer the new facts on their prior motion (see CPLR 2221 [e] [2], [3]; Deutsche Bank Trust Co. v Ghaness, 100 A.D.3d 585, 585-586 [2012]; Jovanovic v Jovanovic, 96 A.D.3d 1019, 1020 [2012]; Matter of Nelson v Allstate Ins. Co., 73 A.D.3d 929 [2010]; Coccia v Liotti, 70 A.D.3d 747, 753 [2010]).