Skip to content
The COVID Project
  1. Library
  2. New York City
  3. MET-NYC-058

Ex. MET-NYC-058 Order Primary source read

Westchester County Local Emergency Order #1 of 2020 (with the County of Westchester Local State of Emergency Declaration of March 16, 2020)

All public and private schools in Westchester County closed to all students and staff except for administrative, instructional, professional and classified staff functions; local state of emergency declared for thirty days

County Executive George S. Latimer · Westchester County, New York (County)

The COVID Project

The record

Jurisdiction
Westchester County, New York · New York City · New York
Level
County
Authority
N.Y. Executive Law art. 2-B, s. 24; N.Y. Education Law s. 3604(7)
Issued
2020-03-16 Mar. 16, 2020
Effective
Order effective Wednesday, March 18, 2020 (signed Mar. 16, 2020 at 3:22 p.m.); five days, extendable; declaration effective Mar. 16, 2020 for 30 days (read as 2020-03-18)
End
Subsumed by the State's EO 202.4 (schools statewide closed from Mar. 18, 2020) and successors. (read as 2020-06-30)
In force
Mar. 18, 2020 to June 30, 2020
Quarters
2020 Q2
Limitation types
Emergency declarationBusiness closureSchools and child care
Addressees
  • all public and private schools situated in Westchester County (including Chapter 853 schools and Special Act school districts)
  • students and staff
Functions reached
  • IN in-person instruction (public and private schools)
  • WF workforce (parents)
  • CB families
Collection
New York City MET-NYC

Operative words

1. All public and private schools situated in Westchester County shall be closed to all students and staff except for the performance of administrative, instructional, professional and classified staff functions as determined by each school or school district.... 3. This Order shall take effect on Wednesday March 18, 2020.... 5. Failure to obey the Order is a criminal offense punishable by law under section 24(5) of the New York State Executive Law. [Declaration:] DECLARED, that a local state of emergency exists for the County of Westchester for a period beginning on this 16th day of March 2020 and shall remain in effect for thirty (30) days or until rescinded by subsequent order or extended.

Enforcement

Executive Law s. 24(5) (criminal offense, recited)

Notes

The declaration recites that 'on March 10, 2020, the governor announced the establishment of a containment area in the Westchester city of New Rochelle'.

Retrieval note

Two-page scanned PDF read from rendered images. Westchester's 2021 EO 1 (electric vehicles) is not a COVID-19 instrument; no other 2020 Westchester COVID-19 executive orders were found in the county's archive.