Colonial Arms Apartments v. Village of Mount Kisco

OPINION OF THE COURT

Memorandum.

The appeal should be dismissed, without costs, on the ground of mootness.

On November 19,1979, defendant village adopted a resolution declaring a housing emergency with respect to buildings with 16 or more housing accommodations and applied the Emergency Tenant Protection Act (ETPA) (L 1974, ch 576, § 4) § 3 (a) thereto. As a result, rentals in those accommodations were frozen as of the date of the resolution. Plaintiff, an owner of an apartment building with 16 or more units, commenced this action seeking to declare the resolution void on the ground that…