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MARTIN CHAVEZ, ET AL., appellants, v. KATONAH MANAGEMENT GROUP, INC., CO., ET AL., defendants third-party plaintiffs-respondents-appellants; JOSEPH ROMA SONS CONSTRUCTION, INC., third-party defendant-respondent.

DECISION ORDER

ORDERED that the order is affirmed insofar as appealed from by the plaintiffs; and it is further,

ORDERED that the appeal by Katonah Management Group, Inc., Co., and Riverwoods Community Association is dismissed as academic; and it is further,

ORDERED that one bill of costs is awarded to the third-party defendant, payable by the plaintiffs.

The injured plaintiff, an employee of the third-party defendant, Joseph Roma Sons Construction, Inc., allegedly was hurt in a fall while descending from a ladder. Before the fall, he was using a leaf blower to clean the gutters on the roof of a two-family house that was part of a condominium complex owned by the defendant third-party plaintiff Riverwoods Community Association (hereinafter Riverwoods) and managed by the defendant third-party plaintiff Katonah Management Group, Inc., Co. The injured plaintiff cleaned the gutters at the Riverwoods complex twice each year.

The Supreme Court properly determined that the activity the injured plaintiff was undertaking at the time of his injury was routine cleaning in a non-construction, non-renovation context, and thus outside of the scope of Labor Law § 240(1) (see Diaz v. Applied Digital Data Sys., 300 A.D.2d 533).

The injured plaintiff's remaining contentions are without merit.

In light of our determination, the contentions of the defendants third-party plaintiffs are academic.

ALTMAN, J.P., FLORIO, H. MILLER and ADAMS, JJ., concur.

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CHAVEZ v. KATONAH MANAGEMENT GROUP, INC
(May 5, 2003)