The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- New York
- Level
- State
- Authority
- Executive Law sec. 29-a
- Issued
- 2020-03-23 Mar. 23, 2020
- Effective
- 2020-03-23
- End
- 2020-04-22 (as issued; the elective directive continued and was modified county by county from Apr. 29, 2020 (EO 202.25)) (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 orders
- Addressees
- all general hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers, office-based surgery practices and diagnostic and treatment centers
- Functions reached
- Collection
- Physician Practices and Outpatient Care SEC-02
Operative words
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. General hospitals shall comply with such order by submitting COVID-19 Plans to the New York State Department of Health (NYSDOH)... 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
Enforcement
Executive Law sec. 29-a; Public Health Law sec. 12
Notes
Office-based surgery practices named in terms; the DOH directive of Mar. 25, 2020 implemented it.