Sherry-Netherland Corp. v. Mandel

Opinion

It is a well-recognized canon of construction that courts may take judicial notice of the interpretation of the provisions of a statute or of the regulations of an administrative agency given by officers charged with enforcement thereof. (Bullock v. Cooley, 225 N. Y. 566; Martorano v. Capital Finance Corp., 289 N. Y. 21.)

The construction required here is of the phrase “ a room * # * regularly offered for rent during the thirty days ending on March 1, 1943,” et cetera, as used in subdivisions (a) and (b) of section 4 of the Rent Regulation for Hotels and Rooming Houses in New York City…