The board of directors of defendant cooperative corporation acted without authority when it imposed a transfer tax in the amount of 1% of the sales price upon the transfer of the shares allocated to plaintiff's apartment to a third party.
The transfer tax was not specifically authorized in the proprietary lease or in the cooperative's bylaws. Nor was it approved as a modification or alteration of the lease or bylaws by a required affirmative vote of the shareholders...
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