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
- Standing duty
- Addressees
- persons generally; every business and owner or person in control of premises within the Code's provisions
- Character
- sanitary code duty
- Collection
- Standing duties: New York DUT-NY
Operative words
The provisions of the sanitary code shall have the force and effect of law and the non-compliance or non-conformance with any provision thereof shall constitute a violation punishable on conviction for a first offense by a fine not exceeding two hundred fifty dollars or by imprisonment for not exceeding fifteen days, or both; and for a second or subsequent offense by a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars or by imprisonment for not exceeding fifteen days, or both.
Penalty
First offense: fine up to $250 or imprisonment up to fifteen days, or both; second or subsequent offense: fine up to $500 or imprisonment up to fifteen days, or both; § 12 civil penalties in addition
What it required
Every person and every business to conform to every provision of the State Sanitary Code, including the 2020-2021 emergency provisions on face coverings, isolation and quarantine and vaccination, as a matter of law enforced by criminal penalty.
Retrieval noteRendered from the mirror's Dec. 11, 2023 capture; the section carries no amendment between 2020 and 2023. 10 NYCRR 2.60 (Aug. 27, 2021, Ex. NY-073) added its own $1,000-per-violation-per-day civil penalty on top of this section.