Authorizes a county, city, town or village to override a governor's declaration of a state disaster emergency in all or part of the territorial limits of such local government.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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6995
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
May 16, 2023
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Introduced by Sens. WEBER, ROLISON -- read twice and ordered printed,
and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Veterans, Home-
land Security and Military Affairs
AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to authorizing a county,
city, town or village to override a state disaster emergency in all or
part of the territorial limits of such local government
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 28 of the executive law is amended by adding a new
2 subdivision 6 to read as follows:
3 6. A county, city, town or village may, at any time, limit or super-
4 sede a governor's declaration of a disaster emergency by executive order
5 issued under this section, by issuing a local state of emergency and
6 local emergency orders under section twenty-four of this article. The
7 local state of emergency and local emergency orders shall only effect
8 part or all of the territorial limits of such local government.
9 § 2. Section 29-a of the executive law is amended by adding a new
10 subdivision 5 to read as follows:
11 5. A county, city, town or village may, at any time, limit or super-
12 sede a governor's declaration of a disaster emergency by executive
13 order issued under this section, by issuing a local state of emergency
14 and local emergency orders under section twenty-four of this article.
15 The local state of emergency and local emergency orders shall only
16 effect part or all of the territorial limits of such local government.
17 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately and shall apply to any
18 executive order issued by the governor on or after January 1, 2023.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD11338-01-3