The following excerpt is from Mancini v. Office of Children & Family Servs., 118 N.E.3d 191, 32 N.Y.3d 521, 93 N.Y.S.3d 652 (N.Y. 2018):
Because the statute is clear on its face, we would not alter the plain meaning based on the legislative history, unless the plain language produced an absurd result or a conflict with some other statute (see People v. Roberts, 31 N.Y.3d 406, 418, 79 N.Y.S.3d 597, 104 N.E.3d 701 [2018] [internal citations and quotation marks omitted] ["If the words chosen have a definite meaning, which involves no absurdity or contradiction, then there is no room for construction and courts have no right to add or take away from that meaning"] ). In any event, the legislative history does not support the majority's interpretation of the statute.
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