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Matter of Honeoye Central School District v. Berle

Court of Appeals of the State of New York
Nov 20, 1980
51 N.Y.2d 970 (N.Y. 1980)

Opinion

Argued October 13, 1980

Decided November 20, 1980

Appeal from the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the Fourth Judicial Department, ARTHUR E. BLAUVELT, J.

Robert Abrams, Attorney-General (Peter G. Crary, Shirley Adelson Siegel, Jeremiah Jochnowitz and James A. Sevinsky of counsel), for Peter A.A. Berle and others, appellants.

Louis N. Kash, Corporation Counsel (Susan L. Hauser of counsel), for City of Rochester and others, appellants.

Robert G. Harvey and John B. Hood for Honeoye Central School District and another, respondents.

David M. Levy for Town of Canadice, respondent.


MEMORANDUM.

The orders of the Appellate Division should be affirmed, with costs, basically for the reasons stated in the opinion of Mr. Justice STEWART F. HANCOCK, JR. ( 72 A.D.2d 25). We point out, as did the Appellate Division, that the statutory exemption scheme and history of section 480-a of the Real Property Tax Law (as amd by L 1976, ch 526, and L 1979, ch 683) amply demonstrates that it was designed to benefit private forest landowners engaged in or about to engage in commercial timber crop production. Additionally, article 4 of the Real Property Tax Law, the exemption article, is comprised of title 1 — "Public Property", and title 2 — "Private Property" (L 1958, ch 959); section 480-a appears in the latter. We note only that the memorandum attributed to a cosponsor of the 1979 amending legislation (L 1979, ch 683) was actually submitted in support of an earlier version of the bill that was not passed.

Chief Judge COOKE and Judges JASEN, GABRIELLI, JONES, WACHTLER, FUCHSBERG and MEYER concur.

Orders affirmed, with costs, in a memorandum.


Summaries of

Matter of Honeoye Central School District v. Berle

Court of Appeals of the State of New York
Nov 20, 1980
51 N.Y.2d 970 (N.Y. 1980)
Case details for

Matter of Honeoye Central School District v. Berle

Case Details

Full title:In the Matter of HONEOYE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT et al., Respondents, v…

Court:Court of Appeals of the State of New York

Date published: Nov 20, 1980

Citations

51 N.Y.2d 970 (N.Y. 1980)

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