Legal Opinion
Watergate II Apartments v. Buffalo Sewer Authority
New York Court of Appeals
Decided December 6, 1978PublishedCited by 466 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Fuchsberg, J.
This case involves a challenge to the power of the Buffalo Sewer Authority to levy "sewer rents” computed on the basis of the assessed valuation of the appellant’s property in the face of a tax limitation agreement between the appellant and the City of Buffalo.
The plaintiff-appellant, Watergate II Apartments, is a designated "redevelopment company” organized under article 5 of the New York Private Housing Finance Law. To satisfy eligibility requirements for a Federal national mortgage construe tion loan, it entered into a tax abatement agreement with the City…
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