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In the Matter of Brooklyn Assembly Halls of Jehovah's Witnesses, Inc. v. Dep't of Envtl. Prot. of the City of New York, 153

In a petition seeking to force city water agencies to provide a statutorily-authorized exemption allowing petitioner-church free use of city water, denial of petition and dismissal of cause are affirmed where: 1) the agencies were not required to expand the scope of the exemption to cover petitioner's partially-qualifying property; and 2) the agencies were not required to interpret the exemption in the context of analogous property-tax exemptions for religious organizations.

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  • Decided 10/28/2008
  • Published 10/28/2008

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  • Court of Appeals of New York

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