Legal Opinion
New York Telephone Co. v. Supervisor of Town of Oyster Bay
New York Court of Appeals
Decided March 31, 2005PublishedCited by 34 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Rosenblatt, J.
New York Telephone Company (NYTC) owns and maintains telephone lines, wires, cables, poles, supports and enclosures for electrical conductors within the Town of Oyster Bay. The equipment, referred to as “mass property,” is situated on public and private land and is within the Town’s refuse and garbage *391district.1 NYTC does not, however, own any of the land on, over or under which this equipment is located. The mass properties are not amenable to human occupation, produce no garbage or refuse of any kind, and neither require nor receive garbage collection.…
2Cases cited9 opinions
- Niagara Mohawk Power Corp. v. City School DistrictNew York Court of Appeals · 1983
- Sperry Rand Corp. v. Town of North HempsteadNew York Supreme Court · 1967
- Sperry Rand Corp. v. Town of North HempsteadAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1968
- Sperry Rand Corp. v. Town of North HempsteadNew York Court of Appeals · 1968
- New York Telephone Co. v. Supervisor of Town of Oyster BayAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2004
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3Cited by34 opinions
- Niagara Mohawk Power Corp. v. Town of WatertownNew York Court of Appeals · 2005
- Keyspan Generation, LLC v. Nassau CountyAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2014
- DeVilbiss v. Matanuska-Susitna BoroughAlaska Supreme Court · 2015
- Niagara Mohawk Power Corp. v. Town of Tonawanda AssessorAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2005
- Keyspan Gas East Corp. v. Supervisor of TownAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2011
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