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 9.58 - Executive Order No. 58: Declaring a Disaster Emergency in the State of New York

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
WHEREAS, the COVID-19 global pandemic has been declared a
					 Public Health Emergency of International Concern by the World Health
					 Organization since early 2020;
WHEREAS, the United States Health and Human Services
					 Secretary declared a public health emergency for the entire United States to
					 aid the nation's healthcare community in responding to COVID-19 on January
					 31,2020;
WHEREAS, New York is now experiencing COVID-19 transmission
					 at rates the State has not seen since April 2021;
WHEREAS, the rate of new COVED-19 hospital admissions has
					 been increasing over the past month to over 300 new admissions a day;
WHEREAS, the state must pursue a coordinated approach to
					 ensure hospital capacity statewide Is able to meet regional needs;
WHEREAS, the State government must support the
					 municipalities and counties in their efforts to facilitate and administer
					 vaccinations and tests for COVID-19, and to prevent the virus from continuing
					 to spread at such rates;
WHEREAS, a new SarCoV2 variant, known as Omicron, has been
					 identified and named a variant of concern by the World Health Organization and
					 the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention;
WHEREAS, this variant has been identified in all 50 U.S.
					 states, including New York, and more than 104 countries;
WHEREAS, this Omicron variant has been shown to be highly
					 transmissible and may cause exponential spread;
WHEREAS, current vaccinations do not appear to be as
					 effective against Omicron infection, while, remaining stronger against severe
					 disease;
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
					 continue the terms, conditions, and suspensions contained in Executive Order 11
					 until January 25, 2022.
IN ADDITION, by virtue of the authority vested in me by
					 Section 29-a of Article 2-B of the Executive Law to temporarily suspend or
					 modify any statute, local law, ordinance, order, rule, or regulation, or parts
					 thereof, of any agency during a State disaster emergency, if compliance with
					 such statute, local law, ordinance, order, rule, or regulation would prevent,
					 hinder, or delay action necessary to cope with the disaster emergency or if
					 necessary to assist or aid in coping with such disaster, I hereby temporarily
					 suspend or modify, for the period from the date of this Executive Order
					 through' January 25, 2022 the following:
* Title V of Article 5 of the Public Health Law and.
					 subparts 19 and 58 of Title 10 of the NYCRR, to the extent necessary .to allow
					 laboratories holding a Clinical Laboratory Improvement Acts (CLIa/ certificate
					 and meeting the CLIA quality standards described in 42 CFR Subparts H, J, K and
					 M, to perform testing for the detection of SARS-CoV-2 in specimens collected
					 from individuals in New York State;
* Subdivisions 7, 7-a and 8 of section 459-c  of the Real
					 Property Tax Law, and subdivisions 5, 5-a, 5th, 5-c and 6 of section 467  of the
					 Real Property Tax Law, to the extent necessary to permit the governing body of
					 an assessing unit to adopt a resolution directing the assessor to grant
					 exemptions pursuant to such section on the 2022 assessment roll to all property
					 owners who received that exemption on the 2021 assessment roll, thereby
					 dispensing with the need for renewal applications from such persons, an d
					 further dispensing with the requirement for assessors to mail renewal
					 applications to such persons. Provided however, that the governing body may, at
					 its option, include in such resolution procedures by which the assessor may
					 require a renewal application to be filed when he or she has reason to believe
					 that an owner who qualified for the exemption on the 2021 assessment roll may
					 have since changed his or her primary residence, added another owner to the
					 deed, transferred the property to a new owner, or died;
* Article 7 of the Public Officers Law to the extent
					 necessary to authorize the New York State Senate and Assembly, at their
					 discretion, to meet and take such action authorized by law remotely by
					 conference call or similar service and otherwise act in conformance with the
					 provisions of Part E of Chapter 417 of the Laws of 2021, and expiring upon the
					 expiration of such Chapter.
GIVEN under my hand and the Privy Seal of the State in the
					 City of Albany this twenty-sixth day of December in the year two thousand
					 twenty-one
Signed: Kathy Hochul
Dated: December 26, 2021