In re Tilar Mc.
Opinion of the Court
Ordered that the appeal from so much of the order of disposition as placed the appellant in the custody of the Commissioner for Social Services for a period of 11 months is dismissed as academic, without costs or disbursements; and it is further,
Ordered that the order of disposition is affirmed insofar as reviewed, without costs or disbursements.
The appeal from so much of the order of disposition as placed the appellant in the custody of the Commissioner for Social Services for a period of 11 months has been rendered academic, as the period of placement has expired (see Matter of Stanley F., 76 AD3d 1067, 1068 [2010]).
Before a fact-finding hearing was held in this proceeding, the appellant sought dismissal of the petition on the ground that it was facially invalid. He contended that the object he was alleged to have possessed, an inoperable air gun that looked like a Clock semiautomatic pistol, could not constitute a toy or imitation firearm within the meaning of the Administrative Code of the City of New York § 10-131 (g) (hereinafter the Administrative Code). The Family Court held that the petition was not facially invalid because an inoperable air gun could constitute an imitation firearm within the meaning of that provision. The appellant admitted his possession of the object at issue, and the Family Court issued a fact-finding order and, upon that order, an order of disposition adjudging the appellant a juvenile delinquent. On appeal, the sole contention raised by the appellant is that the petition was facially invalid.
Each count of a juvenile delinquency petition must be supported, either in the petition itself or in a supporting deposition, by nonhearsay factual allegations that, if true, establish “every element of each crime charged and the respondent’s commission thereof” (see Family Ct Act § 311.2 [3]; Matter of Joel C., 70 AD3d 936, 937 [2010]). A petition’s failure to satisfy this requirement amounts to a nonwaivable jurisdictional defect (see
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