New York Disaster Emergency Calling Restriction Status
- Wednesday, 29th September, 2021
- 14:53pm
In December 2019, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo signed the Nuisance Call Act into law. Among its most significant provisions is the following:
It shall be unlawful for any telemarketer doing business in this state to knowingly make an unsolicited telemarketing sales call to any person in a county, city, town or village under a declared state of emergency as described in sections twenty-four or twenty-eight of the executive law.
This provision banning unsolicited telemarketing sales calls to any person in the state who is living under a declared state of emergency has been enacted numerous times in the years since the law's passage—often without attracting notice.
We are using this page as a regularly updated resource to catalogue all of the New York Disaster Emergencies currently in effect that trigger the telemarketing restrictions from the Nuisance Call Act.
Current Status: Telemarketing Prohibited Statewide
| Executive Order | Expiration Date | Affected Counties | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2.1 | 10/17/2021 | Bronx, Dutchess, Kings, Nassau, New York, Orange, Putnam, Queens, Richmond, Rockland, Suffolk, Sullivan, Ulster, Westchester, and contiguous counties | Post-Tropical Depression Ida |
| 3 | 10/23/2021 | Statewide | A continuation of the previous governor's disaster emergencies |
| 4 | 10/27/2021 | Statewide | Healthcare staffing shortages |
| 5 | 10/28/2021 | Bronx, Kings, New York, Richmond, and Queens | Deaths at Rikers Island |
