This exemption will expire in 2013.
Developers have eight-years to get a site plan approved before the exemption expires.
When an Open champion's exemptions expire, he can skip the 18-hole local qualifying but he must get through the 36-hole sectional.
However, this exemption has expired on December 31, 2007.
A similar exemption in the tax law expired three years ago.
But the exemption expired in 1993, and the city quietly stopped enforcing the age law, though it remained on the books.
A player may be activated before the exemption expires.
This year only Jack Nicklaus, whose various exemptions had finally expired, was invited.
The exemption expires at the end of 1993, and it is widely expected that Congress will not renew it.
But a department spokesman said that exemptions for projects in midtown Manhattan had expired on Dec. 31.