Legal Opinion
Bethelite Community Church v. Department of Environmental Protection
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided March 9, 2006PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
*257Order and judgment (one paper), Supreme Court, New York County (Shirley Werner Kornreich, J.), entered January 12, 2005, which granted the petition brought pursuant to CPLR article 78 to compel the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) to grant petitioner an exemption from water and sewer charges, reverse DEP’s assessments, charges and penalties against it, and abate any tax liens arising from those assessments, charges and penalties, and denied respondents’ cross motion to dismiss the petition, unanimously affirmed, without costs.
Petitioner is entitled to an exemption from the payment…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Yeshivath Shearith Hapletah v. Assessor of FallsburgNew York Court of Appeals · 1992
- Davila v. New York City Housing AuthorityAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1993
- Bethelite Community Church, Great Tomorrows Elementary School v. Department of Environmental ProtectionNew York Supreme Court · 2004
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