The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- New York
- Level
- State
- Authority
- Executive Law 29-a
- Issued
- 2020-03-23 Mar. 23, 2020
- Effective
- 2020-03-23
- End
- 2020-04-22 as written; extended and modified by EO 202.38 (June 6, 2020) (read as 2020-04-22)
- In force
- Mar. 23, 2020 to Apr. 22, 2020
- Quarters
- 2020 Q2
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Gathering capHealth care ordersEvents and venues
- Addressees
- all persons
- hospitals
- insurers
- Functions reached
- WS worship gatherings of any size cancelled Mar. 23-June 5, 2020
- EV
- FC
- CR hospital operations
- Collection
- Religious Organizations and Nonprofits SEC-16
Operative words
Non-essential gatherings of individuals of any size for any reason (e.g. parties, celebrations or other social events) are canceled or postponed at this time.... The Commissioner of Health is authorized to direct, and shall so direct, all general hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers, office-based surgery practices and diagnostic and treatment centers to increase the number of beds available to patients, including by canceling all elective surgeries and procedures, as the Commissioner of Health shall define.... [directives issued] for the period from the date of this Executive Order through April 22, 2020.
Enforcement
Executive Law 29-a; Public Health Law 12
Notes
Retrieval noteScanned; no text layer; clauses verified against rendered pages 3-4 by the repair agent Sept. 27, 2026; signed at Albany 'this twenty-third day of March in the year two thousand twenty'.