A state appeals court has upheld the constitutionality of the cap and freeze on local property taxes adopted in 2011.

The 4-1 Appellate Division, Third Department, panel decided Thursday that the tax-curbing statutes are “rationally related to the legitimate government interest of restraining crippling property tax increases” and rejected the plaintiff’s claims of substantive due process violations.

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