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AMER. BIBLE SOC. v. LEWISOHN

40 N.Y.2d 78 (1976)

In the Matter of American Bible Society, Appellant, v. Richard Lewisohn, as Finance Administrator of the City of New York, et al., Respondents, and Attorney-General of the State of New York, Intervenor-Respondent.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided June 10, 1976.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Frederic Taylor and Thomas C. Crane for appellant.

W. Bernard Richland, Corporation Counsel (Edith I. Spivack, Stanley Buchsbaum and Russell D. Scott of counsel), for respondents.

Louis J. Lefkowitz, Attorney-General (Samuel A. Hirshowitz, Bernard Toomin and Sharon Cuff Slater of counsel), for intervenor-respondent.

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

JONES, J.

We hold that a corporation organized and conducted exclusively for the purpose of publishing and distributing the Holy Bible, when neither the corporation nor its corporate activity is directly associated with an organized religious denomination or with an organization having as its avowed purpose the furthering of a recognized religion, is entitled only to a qualified exemption from real property

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