Appeal from a judgment of the Justice Court of the Village of Greenwood Lake, Orange County (Nancy Brenner DeAngelo, J.), rendered July 19, 2011. The judgment convicted defendant, upon her plea of guilty, of failing to remove debris from her property.

ORDERED that the judgment of conviction is reversed, on the law, and the accusatory instrument is dismissed.

Defendant was charged with failing to remove debris from specified property located in the Village of Greenwood Lake on February 5, 2008, in violation of Greenwood Lake Village Code § 62-7. She subsequently pleaded guilty and was sentenced to a $2,500 fine. The pertinent part of the Greenwood Lake Village Code states as follows:

"the exterior of the premises and all structures thereon shall be kept free of all nuisance and any hazards to the safety of the occupant, pedestrians and other persons utilizing the premises . . . and any of the foregoing shall be promptly removed and abated by the owner or operator to keep the premises free of hazards, which include but are not limited to the following: . . . Refuse: brush, weeds, broken glass, stumps, roots . . . garbage, trash and debris, abandoned automobiles" [*2](emphasis added).

A review of the information charging defendant with violating Greenwood Lake Village Code § 62-7 indicates that it fails to contain any allegation that defendant owned or operated the property where the debris was located. Consequently, the information fails to allege facts of an evidentiary character that establish, if true, every element of the offense charged (see CPL 100.15 [3]; 100.40 [1] [c]; People v Kalin, 12 NY3d 225 [2009]; People v Dumas, 68 NY2d 729, 731 [1986]) and, thus, is jurisdictionally defective. We pass on no other issue.

Accordingly, the judgment of conviction is reversed and the accusatory instrument is dismissed.

Iannacci, J.P., Marano and Tolbert, JJ., concur.
Decision Date: April 08, 2013