485-C - Exemption from taxation of real property used in manufacture of steel in cities of fifty thousand or more persons.

§ 485-c.  Exemption from taxation of real property used in manufacture  of  steel  in cities of fifty thousand or more persons.  Notwithstanding  the provisions of any law to the contrary, blast furnaces,  open  hearth  furnaces,  soaking pits and coke ovens which are used in the manufacture  of steel, and all tanks, towers and stills which are used in  processing  gases  and  liquids  produced  by such coke ovens owned by a corporation  taxable under article nine-A of the tax law and located  within  a  city  with  a  population  of  fifty  thousand  or  more  shall be exempt from  taxation.