A municipality isn’t required to hold a referendum vote if it wants to change elective term limits, the New York Court of Appeals suggests in rejecting a case that had asked it to review recent actions by the city of Yonkers.

The state’s top court on Monday denied an expedited motion for leave by attorney Michael H. Sussman of Sussman & Associates, on behalf of 12 claimants who had sought to prevent Yonkers, the state’s third-largest city, from extending its elective term limits from three, four-year terms, to four, four-year terms.

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