The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- New York (Unified Court System) · New York
- Level
- Court
- Authority
- Judiciary Law 212; EO 202.8 (tolling)
- Issued
- 2020-03-22 Mar. 22, 2020
- Effective
- 2020-03-22, 'effective immediately and until further order' (read as 2020-03-22)
- End
- Superseded by AO/267/20 (Nov. 6, 2020) (read as 2020-04-08)
- In force
- Mar. 22, 2020 to Apr. 8, 2020
- Quarters
- 2020 Q2
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Courts and public offices
- Addressees
- every county clerk and court
- all litigants and attorneys
- Functions reached
- CT courts and clerks (no new civil filings)
- CL collections, foreclosures, commercial litigation
- PM (only post-eviction relief and lockout applications heard)
- Collection
- New York NY
Operative words
I direct that, effective immediately and until further order, no papers shall be accepted for filing by a county clerk or a court in any matter of a type not included on the list of essential matters attached as Exh. A. This directive applies to both paper and electronic filings.
Enforcement
Administrative order; clerks barred from accepting filings
Notes
Exhibit A lists the essential matters: arraignments, bail, orders of protection, child protection removals, Mental Hygiene Law hearings, guardianship emergencies, landlord lockouts and repair orders, election matters