CONGREGATION RABBINICAL COLLEGE OF TARTIKOV, INC. v. TOWN OF RAMAPO

No. 109

17 N.Y.3d 763 (2011)

952 N.E.2d 1024

929 N.Y.S.2d 32

2011 NY Slip Op 5113

CONGREGATION RABBINICAL COLLEGE OF TARTIKOV, INC., Respondent, v. TOWN OF RAMAPO et al., Appellants.

Court of Appeals of New York.

Decided June 14, 2011.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael L. Klein, Town Attorney, Suffern (Janice Gittelman of counsel), for appellants.

Scheinert & Kobb, LLC, Nanuet (Joel L. Scheinert of counsel), for respondent.

Chief Judge LIPPMAN and Judges CIPARICK, GRAFFEO, READ, SMITH and PIGOTT concur; Judge JONES taking no part.


OPINION OF THE COURT

MEMORANDUM.

The order of the Appellate Division should be affirmed, with costs.

New York's Real Property Tax Law exempts from taxation real property owned by a religious corporation if it is "used exclusively for carrying out thereupon" a religious purpose (RPTL 420-a [1] [a]). Plaintiff's property in the Town of Ramapo, Rockland County, had been deemed tax exempt for several years before the Town revoked the exemption in 2007...

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