Bill Text: NY S06995 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: 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.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 7-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO VETERANS, HOMELAND SECURITY AND MILITARY AFFAIRS [S06995 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S06995-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6995

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                      May 16, 2023
                                       ___________

        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.
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