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§ 1.92 NEW YORK STATE PUBLIC HEALTH LEGAL MANUAL
for disaster assistance are insufficient adequately to cope with the disaster.”];
29-b(3) [same as to a city’s use of disaster emergency response personnel].
See § 20(2)(g) [“‘Disaster emergency response personnel’ means
agencies, public officers, employees or affiliated volunteers having duties
and responsibilities under or pursuant to a comprehensive emergency
management plan”].
[1.92] (iv) Local States of Emergency and Suspension of Local Laws
Executive Law § 24(1) [“in the event of a disaster . . . and upon a finding
by the chief executive [of a county, city, town or village] that the public
safety is imperiled thereby, such chief executive may proclaim a local
state of emergency . . . . Following such proclamation and during the continuance
of the local state of emergency, the chief executive may promulgate
local emergency orders to protect life and property or to bring the
emergency situation under control. As illustration, such orders may . . .
provide for:
(a) the establishment of a curfew and the prohibition and control of
pedestrian and vehicle traffic . . . ;
(b) the designation of specific zones within which the occupancy and
use of buildings and the ingress and egress of vehicles and persons
may be prohibited or regulated;
(c) the regulation and closing of places of amusement and assembly;
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(e) the prohibition and control of the presence of persons on public
streets and places;
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(g) the suspension . . . of any of its local laws, ordinances or regulations,
or parts thereof subject to federal and state constitutional,
statutory and regulatory limitations, which may prevent, hinder, or
delay necessary action in coping with a disaster or recovery therefrom
[but only when a request has been made to the Governor for
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