MATTER OF WORLD BUDDHIST CH'AN JING CENTER, INC. v. SCHOEBERL


45 A.D.3d 947 (2007)

846 N.Y.S.2d 392

In the Matter of WORLD BUDDHIST CH'AN JING CENTER, INC., Appellant, v. CURT J. SCHOEBERL, as Assessor of the Town of Shawangunk, et al., Respondents.

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Third Department.

Decided November 1, 2007.


Spain, J.

Petitioner is a not-for-profit tax exempt religious corporation which owns a Buddhist Temple in Queens County that reportedly has over 1,000 members. In 2000, petitioner acquired a 102-acre parcel of land in the Town of Shawangunk, Ulster County, which contains buildings and housing for its leader and approximately 25 monks, nuns and disciples. That parcel was granted an exemption from real property taxes pursuant to RPTL 420-a in 2001. In mid-December 2004...

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