Executive order: Suspension of statutory time limitations, September 2001

NYC 9/11 Public Portal Document

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TEMPORARY SUSPENSION AND MODIFICATION OF STATUTORY PROVISIONS ESTABLISHING TIME LIMITATIONS ON ACTIONS AND TIME IN WHICH TO TAKE AN APPEAL

WHEREAS, on September 11, 2001, I issued Executive Order Number 113 declaring a disaster emergency in the -State of New York;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, GEORGE B. PATAKI, Governor of the State of New York, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and Laws of the State of New York, do hereby continue Executive Order No. 113, dated September 11, 2001, except that such Executive Order is amended to read as follows;

FURTHER, pursuant to the authority vested in me by Section 29-a of Article 2-B of the Executive Law to temporarily suspend specific provisions of any statute, local law, ordinance, orders, rules or regulations, or parts thereof, of any agency during a State disaster emergency, if compliance with such provisions would prevent, hinder or delay action necessary co cope with the disaster, I hereby ten^orarily suspend, from the date the disaster emergency was declared, pursuant to Executive Order Number 113, issued on September 11, 2001 until further notice, the following laws;

Section 201 of the Civil Practice Law and Rules, so far as it bars actions whose limitation period concludes during the period commencing from the date that the disaster emergency was declared pursuant to Executive Order Number 113, issued on September 11, 2001, until further notice, and so far as it limits a courts authority to extend such time, whether or not the time to ooraraence such an action is specified in Article 2 of the Civil Practice Law and Rules;

Section 5513 of the Civil Practice Law and Rules, so far as it relates to a limitation period that concludes during the period commencing from the date that the disaster emergency was declared pursuant to Executive Order Number 113, issued on September 11, 2001;

Sections 30.10 and 30.30 of the Criminal Procedure Law, so far as it bars criminal prosecutions whose.limitation period concludes during the period commencing from the date that the disaster emergency was declared pursuant to Executive Order Number 113, Issued on September 11, 2001, until further notice;

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