New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 9 - EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT › Subtitle A - Governor's Office › Chapter I - Executive Orders › Part 9 - Executive Orders (Kathy Hochul) › Section 9.134 - Executive Order No. 134: Declaring a Disaster Emergency in the State of New York

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
WHEREAS, pursuant to sections 362 and 365 the Public Health
					 Services Act ( 42 U.S.C §§ 362 and 365, and the implementing regulation at
					  42 C.F.R. §
											71.40, on August 2, 2021 the Director of the United States Center
					 for Disease Control ("CDC") issued a
Public Health Reassessment and Order
					 Suspending the Right to Introduce Certain Person from Countries Where a
					 Quarantinable Communicable Disease Exists
(the "Title 42 Order");
WHEREAS, the Title 42 Order prohibited migration into the United
					 States by "covered noncitizens" traveling from Canada or Mexico (regardless of their
					 country of origin) who would otherwise be introduced into a congregate setting in a
					 port of entry or U.S. Border Patrol station at or near the U.S. land and adjacent
					 coastal borders;
WHEREAS, even with the Title 42 Order in place, large numbers of
					 migrants with immediate housing and service needs arrived in the City and State of
					 New York over the first few months of the year: as of May 2023, the City of New
					 York, alone, was providing temporary housing for 36,738 migrants from the southern
					 border, a number that had increased by 12,279 individuals since January 2023;
					 including by an additional 1,578 individuals in just a week.
WHEREAS, since the expiration of the Title 42 Order on May 11,
					 2023, thousands of additional people have sought shelter in New York, with New York
					 City alone currently being responsible for sheltering more than 65,500
					 migrants;
WHEREAS, federal support is critical to support the City of New
					 York and other local governments within the State that lack the infrastructure,
					 facilities, and resources necessary to meet the immediate humanitarian demand to
					 house and meet other basic needs of the large numbers of migrant arrivals;
					 and
WHEREAS, the arrival of increased numbers of migrants seeking
					 shelter in the City and State of New York is expected to exacerbate an already
					 large-scale humanitarian crisis and create a disaster emergency to which local
					 governments are unable to adequately respond, creating a threat to health and
					 safety, which could result in the loss of life or property; and
NOW, THEREFORE, I, KATHY HOCHUL, Governor of the State of New
					 York, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution of the State of
					 New York and Section 28 of Article 2-B of the Executive Law, do hereby extend the
					 State Disaster Emergency as declared in Executive Order 28, as continued in
					 Executive Order 28.13, and do hereby continue the terms, conditions, and suspensions
					 contained in Executive Order 28, as continued in Executive Order 28.13, until July
					 7, 2024.
(L.S.) GIVEN under my hand and the Privy Seal of the State in
					 the City of Albany this seventh day of June in the year two thousand
					 twenty-four.
BY THE GOVERNOR
/S/ Kathy Hochul
/s/ Karen Persichilli Keogh
Secretary to the Governor