STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          10934

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     August 17, 2020
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        Introduced  by  COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Cusick) --
          read once and referred to the Committee on Housing

        AN ACT in relation to defining residential construction as an  essential
          business

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, rule  or  regu-
     2  lation  during  the  period  of the COVID-19 state disaster emergency as
     3  declared pursuant to executive order 202 of 2020, and extensions  there-
     4  of,  and  article  2-B  of  the  executive  law,  essential business, as
     5  provided  for  in  executive  order  202.6,  shall  include  residential
     6  construction without any limitation.
     7    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.








         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD16718-01-0