{"id":"SEC-09-001","kind":"order","level":"state","jurisdiction":"New York","state":"NY","metro":"","industry":"09","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"Empire State Development Corporation (under Executive Order 202.6)","authority":"N.Y. Exec. Law s. 29-a; EO 202.6 (Mar. 18, 2020) directing ESD to issue essential-business guidance","instrument":"Guidance for Determining Whether a Business Enterprise is Subject to a Workforce Reduction Under Recent Executive Orders (construction section)","title":"ESD essential business guidance under EO 202.6 (construction revised Mar. 27, 2020; page updated Oct. 23, 2020)","dateIssued":"2020-03-20","effective":"2020-03-27 (construction limited to essential projects)","end":"Construction reopened by region in Phase 1 (May 15, 2020; NYC June 8, 2020); guidance stated it remained in effect for regions and industries not yet within reopening phases; industry guidance lifted June 15, 2021","startDate":"2020-03-27","endDate":"2020-05-15","quarters":["2020Q2","2020Q3","2020Q4","2021Q1","2021Q2"],"types":["CLOSE","EMP"],"addressees":["all construction businesses and projects in New York"],"clause":"All non-essential construction is limited to only staging activities in regions that are not yet within the first phase of the state\u0027s reopening plan, except emergency construction... construction for, or your business provides necessary support for construction projects involving, roads, bridges, transit facilities, utilities, hospitals or healthcare facilities, homeless shelters, or public or private schools... construction for affordable housing... construction work that is being completed by a single worker who is the sole employee/worker on the job site... Sites that cannot maintain appropriate social distancing, as well as cleaning/disinfecting protocols must close.","enforcement":"EO 202.8 (violations subject to civil penalties and mandatory closure under Exec. Law s. 29-a and Public Health Law s. 12); NYC DOB stop-work orders and fines (metro NYC file)","functions":["JS job sites limited to essential projects","SB","OW","BD","PM (DOB permitting limited to essential work)"],"notes":"March 27, 2020 revision (widely reported as \u0027all non-essential construction must safely shut down\u0027) replaced the March 20 version that treated all construction as essential; the Oct. 23, 2020 text read live carries the same essential list and the \u0027must close\u0027 sentence.","sourceUrl":"https://esd.ny.gov/guidance-executive-order-2026","snapshot":"https://web.archive.org/web/20201023022531/https://esd.ny.gov/guidance-executive-order-2026","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":334336,"grade":"primary","character":"","description":"","collection":"SEC-09","url":"/library/SEC-09-001","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/SEC-09-001","citation":"Empire State Development Corporation (under Executive Order 202.6), Guidance for Determining Whether a Business Enterprise is Subject to a Workforce Reduction Under Recent Executive Orders (construction section) (Mar. 20, 2020) (Ex. SEC-09-001)","stateName":"New York","related":["SEC-09-017","SEC-09-GM-006","SEC-09-GM-007"]}