M. Maldwin Fertig

He introduced and successfully passed the Lockwood-Fertig Bill, which provided equal pay for New York City school teachers.

[1] Fertig served as assistant corporation counsel of New York City from 1920 to 1932, in charge of franchise division.

He conducted the city's long litigation in opposition to increased telephone rates, handled gas, electric, telephone, transit, and regulatory matters, and was the city's counsel in New York Central Railroad Commutation Case.

He was a special counsel for the Public Service Commission in 1936, arguing for and obtaining a decision that sustained the constitutionality of Lehman's temporary rate legislation in the Court of Appeals.

An expert in public utility law and practice, he became a member of the New York State Transit Commission he in 1938.

In the Convention, he successfully sponsored the Fertig Amendment, which authorized a 315 million dollar exemption from New York City's statutory debt limit to be used so the city could buy ownership of the Interboro Rapid Transit and the Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit systems.

He was a member of the New York County Lawyers' Association, the Bronx County Bar Association, the Academy of Political Science, the advisory committee of the New York section of the National Youth Administration,[1] B'nai B'rith, and the Freemasons.