3019 - Exemption from taxation. - New York Statutes

§ 3019. Exemption from taxation. 1. It is hereby determined that the creation of a corporation and the carrying out of its corporate purpose is in all respects a public and governmental purpose for the benefit of the people of the state and for the improvement of their health, safety, welfare, comfort and security, and that said purposes are public purposes and that a corporation will be performing an essential governmental function in the exercise of the powers conferred upon it by this act. 2. The property of a corporation and its income and operations shall be exempt from taxation. 3. The notes and bonds of a corporation issued pursuant to authority granted in the special act creating it or this act and the income therefrom and all its fees, charges, gifts, grants, revenues, receipts and other moneys received or to be received, pledged to pay, or secure the payment of, such notes or bonds shall at all times be free from taxation, except for estate and gift taxes and taxes on transfers.