I need to brush up on my NY State legal terms, but that post sounds like one step above dog catcher.
Welcome to the website for New York State's Town and Village Courts. As the first level trial courts in New York's Unified Court System, the town and village courts are a vital link in New York's justice system. Many New Yorkers will have their first and only court experience in a town or village court. The justices who preside in these courts are instrumental in resolving community disputes involving vehicle and traffic matters, small claims, evictions, civil matters and criminal offenses.
It sounds like a Justice of the Peace here in Texas. They are to be respected, but a J.P. would never assume a state law was invalid just because the Prosecutor had not "proven it was Constitutional."
This reeks--one major purpose of laws is to keep our elected officials from misusing their power. This mayor clearly violated a law he didn't agree with, just as they did in San Francisco. Now we have a lowest-level judge following suit and failing to apply the State Law.