{"id":"DUT-NY-003","kind":"duty","level":"state","jurisdiction":"New York","state":"NY","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"New York State Legislature (Public Health Law, article 1, title 2); power exercised by the Commissioner of Health","authority":"N.Y. Const. art. XVII, § 3; police power; L. 1953, ch. 879, as amended","instrument":"N.Y. Public Health Law § 16 (summary action)","title":"Summary action","dateIssued":"","effective":"standing; text in force throughout March 2020 to September 2021","end":"standing","startDate":"","endDate":"2021-09-30","quarters":["2020Q2","2020Q3","2020Q4","2021Q1","2021Q2","2021Q3"],"types":["DUTY","CLOSE","QUAR"],"addressees":["persons generally; owners or persons in control of premises; State agencies and political subdivisions"],"clause":"Whenever the commissioner, after investigation, is of the opinion that any person is causing, engaging in or maintaining a condition or activity which in his opinion constitutes danger to the health of the people... the commissioner shall order the person, including any state agency or political subdivision having jurisdiction, by written notice to discontinue such dangerous condition or activity or take certain action immediately or within a specified period of less than fifteen days.","enforcement":"Enforced through § 12 (civil penalty up to $2,000 per violation and higher tiers) and § 12-b (criminal); the order itself operates immediately","functions":[],"notes":"Any person, business or public body maintaining a condition or activity the Commissioner finds dangerous to the health of the people to discontinue it or take the ordered action immediately, before any hearing (the hearing follows within fifteen days), the summary closure and abatement power that stood behind every premises-level health directive. Character as recorded: statutory_authority (enabling power; binds through the orders issued under it).","sourceUrl":"https://newyork.public.law/laws/n.y._public_health_law_section_16","snapshot":"","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":146403,"grade":"primary","character":"statutory_authority","description":"","collection":"DUT-NY","url":"/library/DUT-NY-003","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/DUT-NY-003","citation":"New York State Legislature (Public Health Law, article 1, title 2); power exercised by the Commissioner of Health, N.Y. Public Health Law § 16 (summary action) (standing) (Ex. DUT-NY-003)","stateName":"New York","related":[]}