Matter of City of Buffalo v. Town of Amherst Indus. Dev. Agency, 9 N.Y.3d 61 (2007)
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General Municipal Law § 862(1), the “anti-pirating” statute, prohibits industrial development agencies from providing financial assistance to projects that result in the removal of a facility from one area of the state to another, and the term “area” is not synonymous with “municipality.”