Hotel Armstrong, Inc. v. Temporary State Housing Rent Commission

William C. Hecht, Jr., J.

Plaintiff instituted suit seeking a declaratory judgment that, inter alia, section 2 (subd. 2, par. [b]) of the State Residential Rent Law (L. 1946, ch. 274, as amd. by L. 1959, ch. 695) is inapplicable to make plaintiff’s premises subject to rent control and that section 4 (subd. 2, par. [b]) is unconstitutional.

The gist of plaintiff’s grievance is that its hotel never having been previously controlled and having at all times been a hotel free of rent control, it could not now be controlled.

The pertinent statutes provide as follows:

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