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- Title: Bethlehem Steel Corporation v. Board Education City School District Lackawanna Et Al.
- Author : Court of Appeals of New York
- Release Date : January 09, 1978
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[44 N.Y.2d 831 Page 834] Opinion OF THE COURT For the reasons expressed in the opinion of Mr. Justice Stewart F. Hancock, Jr., at the Appellate Division, chapters 349 (as amd by ch 485) and 484 of the Laws of 1976, insofar as it assigns a period of probable usefulness to the cost of current health and dental insurance coverage, are declared unconstitutional in their entirety. The challenged legislation, including the alternative State Real Property Tax Act (L 1976, ch 349, § 3), presents nothing more than an attempt to circumvent the constitutional limitation upon the amount of revenue that may be raised by local subdivisions of the State through the taxation of real property. (NY Const, art VIII, § 10.) On a previous occasion, this court has been constrained to strike down legislative measures in palpable evasion of those constitutional provisions designed to limit the taxing powers of local subdivisions of the State. (Hurd v City of Buffalo, 34 N.Y.2d 628, 629, affg 41 A.D.2d 402.) For present purposes, chapters 349 and 484 of the Laws of 1976 are indistinguishable from the legislation struck down as unconstitutional in Hurd (supra). We would further add that section 7 of chapter 349, which purports to restrict the judicial authority to fashion remedies, constitutes a patently unconstitutional infringement on the powers of the judiciary.