Provides that COVID-19 was an event that could not have been foreseen or guarded against for the purposes of establishing the impossibility of performance of a contract entered into prior to March seventh, two thousand twenty.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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40--A
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE(Prefiled)
January 6, 2021
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Introduced by Sen. HOYLMAN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Judiciary -- committee
discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
to said committee
AN ACT providing that COVID-19 was an event that could not have been
foreseen or guarded against for the purposes of establishing the
impossibility of performance of a contract entered into prior to March
seventh, two thousand twenty
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. For the purposes of establishing the impossibility of
2 performance of a contract entered into prior to March seventh, two thou-
3 sand twenty, the outbreak of novel coronavirus, COVID-19, shall be
4 considered an unanticipated event that could not have been foreseen or
5 guarded against in such contract.
6 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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