The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- New York
- Level
- State
- Authority
- N.Y. Const. art. XVII, § 3; police power; L. 1953, ch. 879, as amended
- Effective
- standing; text in force throughout March 2020 to September 2021
- End
- standing (read as 2021-09-30)
- In force
- Standing (a statutory duty; in force throughout the six quarters)
- Quarters
- 2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Business closureStanding duty
- Addressees
- owners, agents and occupants of premises; businesses open to the public within a health district
- Character
- sanitary code duty
- Collection
- Standing duties: New York DUT-NY
Operative words
3. Every local board of health shall order the suppression and removal of all nuisances and conditions detrimental to life and health found to exist within the health district.
Penalty
§ 12-b(1): misdemeanor for wilful refusal to comply with a lawful order of a local board of health (Ex. DUT-NY-002); § 12 civil penalties (Ex. DUT-NY-001)
What it required
Every local board of health to receive complaints of 'nuisances, or causes of danger or injury to life and health,' to enter premises where such conditions are known or believed to exist, and to order their suppression and removal; every owner, agent and occupant of premises to abate the condition so ordered.
Retrieval noteRendered from the mirror's June 20, 2024 capture; the section carries no amendment between 2020 and 2024. Subdivision 2 requires the board to furnish 'the owners, agents and occupants of the premises with a written statement of the results and conclusions' of its examination.