New York Executive Law Article 2-B - STATE AND LOCAL NATURAL AND MAN-MADE DISASTER PREPAREDNESS
- 20 - Natural and Man-Made Disasters; Policy; Definitions.
1. It shall be the policy of the state that: a. local government and emergency service organizations continue their essential role as the first line...
- 21 - Disaster Preparedness Commission Established; Meetings; Powers and Duties.
1. There is hereby created in the executive department a disaster preparedness commission consisting of the commissioners of transportation, health, division of criminal justice services,...
- 22 - State Disaster Preparedness Plans.
1. The commission shall prepare a state disaster preparedness plan and submit such plan to the governor for approval no later than one year following...
- 23 - Local Comprehensive Emergency Management Plans.
1. Each county, except those contained within the city of New York, and each city with a population of one million or more, shall prepare...
- 23-a - County Registry of Disabled Persons; Notice.
1. In each county having a local disaster preparedness plan pursuant to section twenty-three of this article, in order to meet the special needs of...
- 23-b - Nursing Home and Assisted Living Facility Plans.
1. After consultation with the commissioner of health, the director of the office for the aging, and the director of the state office of homeland...
- 23-c - Consistency Among Local Disaster Preparedness Plans.
1. The local disaster preparedness plans for each county, city, town, or village shall be so developed that no part of the local disaster preparedness...
- 24 - Local State of Emergency; Local Emergency Orders by Chief Executive.
1. Notwithstanding any inconsistent provision of law, general or special, in the event of a disaster, rioting, catastrophe, or similar public emergency within the territorial...
- 25 - Use of Local Government Resources in a Disaster.
1. Upon the threat or occurrence of a disaster, the chief executive of any political subdivision is hereby authorized and empowered to and shall use...
- 26 - Coordination of Local Disaster Preparedness Forces and Local Civil Defense Forces in Disasters.
1. Upon the threat or occurrence of a disaster, the chief executive of a county may coordinate responses for requests for assistance made by the...
- 27 - Continuity of Local Governments.
1. Every county, except those wholly contained within a city, every city, every town and every village shall have power to provide by local law,...
- 28 - State Declaration of Disaster Emergency.
1. Whenever the governor, on his own initiative or pursuant to a request from one or more chief executives, finds that a disaster has occurred...
- 28-a - Post Disaster Recovery Planning.
1. Whenever a state disaster emergency has been declared any county, city, town or village included in such disaster area shall prepare a local recovery...
- 29 - Direction of State Agency Assistance in a Disaster Emergency.
Upon the declaration of a state disaster emergency the governor may direct any and all agencies of the state government to provide assistance under the...
- 29-a - Suspension of Other Laws.
1. Subject to the state constitution, the federal constitution and federal statutes and regulations, the governor may by executive order temporarily suspend specific provisions of...
- 29-b - Use of Disaster Emergency Response Personnel in Disasters.
1. The governor may, in his or her discretion, direct the state disaster preparedness commission to conduct an emergency exercise or drill, under its direction,...
- 29-c - Radiological Preparedness.
1. The commission: (a) may monitor directly and record the off-site presence of radioactive material in the vicinity of nuclear electric generating facilities located in...
- 29-d - Reports.
In order to assess the present preparedness in the state for any radiological accident and to determine the need for, and appropriateness of, any additional...
- 29-e - New York State Emergency Assistance Program.
1. For purposes of this section the following terms shall have the following meanings: (a) "Infrastructure" shall mean and include publicly owned storm and sanitary...
- 29-g - Emergency Management Assistance Compact.
1. The emergency management assistance compact is made and entered into by and between the participating member states which enact this compact, hereinafter called party...
- 29-h - Intrastate Mutual Aid Program.
1. Creation. There is hereby created the intrastate mutual aid program to complement existing mutual aid agreements in the event of a disaster that results...
- 29-i - Immunity From Liability for Emergency Alerts.
Any provider of mobile services, as defined in 47 U.S.C. 153, including its officers, directors, employees, affiliates, vendors and agents, acting on behalf of the...
- 29-j - Acceptance of Gifts.
1. The state office of emergency management within the division of homeland security and emergency services may accept any assistance, including but not limited to...
- 29-k - Quarterly Claim Reports.
* The governor's office of storm recovery, shall produce a quarterly report, which shall provide the number of all active single family housing applicants by...
Last modified: February 3, 2019