Opinion
May 4, 1999
Appeal from the Supreme Court, New York County (Leland DeGrasse, J.).
The instant petition seeking relief in the nature of mandamus does not lie. Mandamus is available only to compel a nondiscretionary governmental act (Matter of Altamore v. Barrios-Paoli, 90 N.Y.2d 378). The act petitioners would compel, however, i.e., the extension of a civil service eligibility list, is clearly discretionary. We note that there is no evidence that respondents' determination to let the list lapse at the end of its maximum statutory term was arbitrary and capricious or made in bad faith (supra, at 386; Matter of DiNatale v. Levitt, 76 N.Y.2d 548, 551-552; Matter of Petitto v. Barrios-Paoli, 244 A.D.2d 205).
Concur — Ellerin, P. J., Williams, Mazzarelli and Buckley, JJ.