Apostolic Faith Rescue Mission v. Slipyan

Summary proceedings were properly brought to recover store space which the landlord proposes to use for religious purposes. Whatever doubt may have existed as to the right to dispossess a tenant upon this ground has been dispelled by chapters 534 and 535 of the Laws of 1949 (eff. April 11, 1949). These enactments amend the existing emergency rent laws applicable to business and commercial space (L. 1945, ohs. 3, 314, as amd.), inter alla, by expressly authorizing the maintenance of such proceedings by religious and other specified nonprofit organizations seeking possession for their own…