Opinion
August 24, 1972
Levine Levine for plaintiff.
Abraham Kleinman for Sullivan County, defendant.
Alfred H. Beck for Assessor, Town of Liberty, and another, defendants.
Gross, Gross Gross for Central School District No. 1 of Towns of Liberty, Bethel, Fallsburg, Neversink, Rockland and Thompson, defendant.
In view of the again amended paragraphs (a) and (b) of subdivision 1 of section 421 Real Prop. Tax of the Real Property Tax Law by the 1972 Legislature, which provide that retroactive to January 1, 1972 nonprofit corporations whose purpose is the moral and mental improvement of men, women and children are tax exempt regardless of local law, my prior decision ( 70 Misc.2d 562) must be amended and the plaintiff's motion for summary judgment in its declaratory judgment action granted to the extent of declaring that as of January 1, 1972 the plaintiff corporation is exempt from taxation as provided in section 421 (subd 1, pars [a], [b]) of the Real Property Tax Law.