New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 9 - EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT › Subtitle A - Governor's Office › Chapter I - Executive Orders › Part 5 - Executive Orders (George E. Pataki) › Section 5.2 - Executive Order No. 2: Ordering a Moratorium on Proposed Rules and Regulations. [*]

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
WHEREAS, excessive rules and regulations have unduly
					 burdened the State's economy and imposed needless costs on the businesses and
					 citizens of this State; and
WHEREAS, this administration intends to review all proposed
					 rules and regulations to ensure that no rule or regulation is more demanding
					 than required to meet legislative goals;
NOW THEREFORE, I, George E. Pataki, Governor of the State
					 of New York, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and
					 Laws of the State of New York, do hereby establish a 90-day moratorium on the
					 adoption of any rule or regulation proposed pursuant to the State
					 Administrative Procedure Act by any department, agency, division, commission,
					 bureau or other entity over which I have executive power;
Provided, however, that a department, agency, division,
					 commission, bureau or other entity over which I have executive power, may adopt
					 or readopt a proposed rule or regulation or an emergency rule or regulation
					 when the Counsel to the Governor, Secretary to the Governor and Director of
					 Regulatory Reform upon his appointment and in consultation with the Secretary
					 to the Governor, have determined that such adoption or readoption as the case
					 may be, relaxes a current regulatory burden, is subject to a statutory,
					 administrative or judicial deadline, responds to emergencies affecting the
					 public health, safety or welfare, or assists in the enforcement of criminal
					 laws.
I further direct each department, agency, division,
					 commission, bureau or other entity over which I have executive power to
					 evaluate existing and proposed rules or regulations, to identify for
					 modification, rescission or withdrawal those rules or regulations which have
					 unduly burdened the economy of the State of New York and caused job losses or
					 which are more demanding than required to meet legislative goals.
Prior to the end of the moratorium each department, agency,
					 division, commission, bureau and other entity over which I have executive power
					 shall submit a written report to me containing recommendations for regulatory
					 reform consistent with the above objectives. The Secretary to the Governor and
					 Director of Regulatory Reform, upon his appointment and in consultation with
					 the Secretary to the Governor, is hereby directed to evaluate such
					 recommendations.
For the purpose of this Executive Order, the term rule
					 shall have the same meaning as defined in § 102 of the State
					 Administrative Procedure Act and emergency rule shall have the same meaning as
					 defined in § 202(6) of the State Administrative Procedure Act.
Notice of this moratorium shall be published in the New
					 York
State Register
immediately.
Signed: George E. Pataki
Dated: January 5, 1995
Footnotes
* [Revoked by Executive Order
					 No. 5 (Eliot Spitzer),
infra.
] [Revoked by Executive Order No.
					 9 (David A. Paterson),
infra.
] [Revoked by Executive Order No.
					 2 (Andrew M. Cuomo),
infra.
]