New York City’s Emergency Executive Order No. 1.13 extends the long-running Department of Correction emergency for another five days, continuing a legal framework that has been in place since 2021 while officials work on a compliance plan. At the same time, the order begins scaling back some of the emergency suspensions by immediately restoring certain DOC staffing and residency-related legal requirements that had previously been waived. In effect, the city is keeping the correctional emergency in place for now, but signaling a gradual return to normal legal compliance instead of allowing all past exemptions to continue unchanged.

Emergency Executive Order No. 1.13

WHEREAS, pursuant to a state of emergency first declared by Emergency Executive Order No. 241, dated September 15, 2021, and subsequent orders extending such state of emergency, compliance by the Department of Correction (DOC) with various laws and regulations has not been required; and

WHEREAS, such orders issued prior to January 5, 2026 did not provide or require a plan for actions that would enable DOC to come into compliance with applicable laws and regulations for which compliance is not required as a result of such orders; and

WHEREAS, the state of emergency first declared in 2021 continues for the present pending the expedited development and implementation of such plan;

NOW, THEREFORE, pursuant to the powers vested in me as Mayor of the City of New York, by the laws of the State of New York and the City of New York, including but not limited to the New York Executive Law, the New York City Charter and the Administrative Code of the City of New York, and the common law authority to protect the public in the event of an emergency, it is hereby ordered:

Section 1. Section 1 of Emergency Executive Order No. 1.12, dated March 6, 2026, is hereby extended for five (5) days, except that:

1. Subdivisions b and c of section 9-116 of the Administrative Code, first suspended in section 1 of Emergency Executive Order No. 304, dated November 29, 2021, are no longer suspended, effective immediately; and
2. Section 2 of Emergency Executive Order No. 100, dated May 23, 2022, in relation to sections 12-120 and 12-121 of the Administrative Code, is not extended, effective immediately.

§ 2. DOC, in consultation with the Law Department, shall regularly update the Mayor regarding additional suspensions that can be lapsed to comply with the implementation action plan developed pursuant to Section 2 of Emergency Executive Order 1, dated January 5, 2026, and with applicable laws and regulations that presently do not apply pursuant to Emergency Executive Orders.

§ 3. This Emergency Executive Order shall take effect immediately and shall remain in effect for five (5) days unless it is terminated or modified at an earlier date.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani
Mayor

March 11, 2026 Manhattan , NY

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