WHEREAS, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) is North America’s largest transportation network, servicing a population of 15.3 million people in the 5,000-square-mile area fanning out from New York City through Long Island, southeastern New York State and Connecticut;

WHEREAS, the Long Island Rail Road is the busiest commuter railroad in North America, carrying an average of 301,000 customers each weekday on 735 daily trains;

WHEREAS, more than five million customers use the MTA’s rail and subway system every day, its highest ridership in history, many of whom have no other means of affordable and safe transportation to meet their daily needs;

WHEREAS, consistent, efficient and safe mass transportation into and out of the City of New York is necessary for the sustained viability of New York State’s economy and the protection and livelihood of the State’s residents and visitors;

WHEREAS, there have been increasingly constant and continuing failures of the tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure throughout the system including at Pennsylvania Station located in the County of New York (Penn Station) that have resulted in various subway derailments, extensive track outages, and substantial service disruptions impacting the health and safety of hundreds of thousands of riders;

WHEREAS, these failures include three subway derailments - the A train at West 128th St on June 27, 2017; an Amtrak train at Penn Station on March 24, 2017; and a NJ Transit train at Penn Station on April 3, 2017 - and other incidents such as: the F train being stuck between the West 4th Street and Broadway-Lafayette stations without air conditioning or power for over an hour on June 5, 2017; a NJ Transit train being stuck in a tunnel for 3 hours on April 15, 2017 without power or air conditioning, a water condition on January 9, 2017 on the F line at West 4th Street; signal switch trouble on January 24, 2017 on the D line at 59th Street-Columbus Circle; a broken rail on March 6, 2017 on the N line at Queensboro Plaza; a home signal problem on April 24, 2017 on the D line at Dekalb Ave; a power problem on May 30, 2017 on the E line at Queens Plaza; a track circuit failure on June 9, 2017 on the C line at Jay St.-Metro Tech; signal trouble on June 20, 2017 on the D line at 34th St. Herald Square; and other similar derailments and related infrastructure issues;

WHEREAS, the continuing failures of the tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure throughout the MTA’s rail and subway system, overcapacity for the last fifty years, and failures at Penn Station, have had a vast and deleterious impact on the health, safety, and livelihood of commuters, tourists, resident New Yorkers, as well as business and commerce in the Metropolitan Commuter Transportation District (MCTD), which is the recognized economic engine of the State of New York, and thereby have adversely affected the New York State economy;

WHEREAS, in order to address failures at Penn Station, the National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak), the owner of Penn Station, plans a series of repairs to the tracks, signal, switches and other transportation infrastructure at Penn Station (the Amtrak Repair Program), which is scheduled to proceed from July 2017 through August 2017 and will involve various track outages and service disruptions;

WHEREAS, the track outages and service disruption necessary to implement the Amtrak Repair Program and other repairs necessary to fix tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure throughout the MTA’s rail and subway system are necessary to protect the public, health and safety and will result in further deleterious impact on commuters, tourists, other New Yorkers, as well as business and commerce in the MCTD and thereby on the New York State economy, and will also worsen the transportation disaster emergency that currently exists due to the condition of Penn Station and the MTA’s rail and subway system as a whole; and,

WHEREAS, significant and immediate action must be taken by the MTA and its subsidiaries and affiliates to assist in the repair of the tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure and in the mediation of such track outages and service disruptions due to this disaster emergency;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, ANDREW M. CUOMO, Governor of the State of New York, by virtue of the authority vested in me by Sections 28 and 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 emergency, if compliance with such provisions would prevent, hinder or delay action necessary to cope with the disaster, hereby declare a State-wide disaster emergency and temporarily suspend, for the period from the date of this Executive Order until further notice, the following laws:

Section 1266 of the Public Authorities Law so far as it applies to contracts, leases, licenses, permits or any other written agreements that may be entered into for purposes of mitigating such disaster emergency

Section 1209 of the Public Authorities Law so far as it applies to contracts, leases, licenses, permits or any other written agreements that may be entered into for purposes of mitigating such disaster emergency;

Section 1265-a of the Public Authorities Law so far as it applies to contracts, leases, licenses, permits or any other written agreements that may be entered into for purposes of mitigating such disaster emergency;

Section 1265-b of the Public Authorities Law so far as it applies to contracts, leases, licenses, permits or any other written agreements that may be entered into for purposes of mitigating such disaster emergency;

Section 2878 of the Public Authorities Law so far as it applies to contracts, leases, licenses, permits or any other written agreements that may be entered into for purposes of mitigating such disaster emergency;

Section 2879 of the Public Authorities Law and any guidelines issued pursuant thereto so far as they apply to contracts, leases, licenses, permits or any other written agreements that may be entered into for purposes of mitigating such disaster emergency;

Section 2879-a of the Public Authorities Law so far as it applies to contracts, leases, licenses, permits or any other written agreements that may be entered into for purposes of mitigating such disaster emergency;

Section 2880 of the Public Authorities Law so far as it applies to contracts, leases, licenses, permits or any other written agreements that may be entered into for purposes of mitigating such disaster emergency;

Section 139-d of the State Finance Law so far as it applies to contracts, leases, licenses, permits or any other written agreements that may be entered into for purposes of mitigating such disaster emergency;

Section 139-i of the State Finance Law so far as it applies to contracts, leases, licenses, permits or any other written agreements that may be entered into for purposes of mitigating such disaster emergency;

Section 139-j of the State Finance Law so far as it applies to contracts, leases, licenses, permits or any other written agreements that may be entered into for purposes of mitigating such disaster emergency;

Section 139-k of the State Finance Law so far as it applies to contracts, leases, licenses, permits or any other written agreements that may be entered into for purposes of mitigating such disaster emergency;

Article 8 of the Environmental Conservation Law and all applicable rules and regulations implemented thereto, including, without limitation, 6 NYCRR Part 617;

Any rules, regulations or guidelines established pursuant to, in conformity with, or for purposes of implementing any of the aforementioned provisions of law; and,

Any other provision of any New York State statute, local law, ordinance, orders, rules or regulations, or parts thereof, that may apply to contracts, leases, licenses, permits, program or operational plans, or any other written agreements that may be entered into for purposes of mitigating such disaster emergency.

WHEREAS, pursuant to Executive Order No. 168, a disaster has heretofore been declared in the five boroughs of New York City and the Counties of Dutchess, Nassau, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Suffolk and Westchester that incorporate the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) Region in the State of New York due to increasingly constant and continuing failures of the tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure throughout the system including at Pennsylvania Station located in the County of New York (Penn Station), that have resulted in various subway derailments, extensive track outages, and substantial service disruptions impacting the health and safety of hundreds of thousands of riders;

WHEREAS, the ongoing failures of the tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure throughout the MTA’s rail and subway system continue to pose an imminent threat and have a vast and deleterious impact on the health, safety, and livelihood of commuters, tourists, resident New Yorkers, as well as business an commerce in the Metropolitan Commuter Transportation District (MCTD), which is the recognized economic engine of the State of New York, and thereby have adversely affected the New York State economy;

WHEREAS, the track outages and service disruption necessary to implement the Amtrak Repair Program, and other repairs necessary to fix tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure throughout the MTA’s rail and subway system continue to be necessary to protect the public, health and safety of commuters, tourists, resident New Yorkers, and will continue to worsen the transportation disaster emergency that currently exists due to the condition of Penn Station and the MTA’s rail and subway system as a whole; and,

WHEREAS, it continues to be necessary for the MTA and its subsidiaries and affiliates to take significant and immediate action to assist in the repair of the tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure and in the mediation of such track outages and service disruptions due to this disaster emergency;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, ANDREW M. CUOMO, Governor of the State of New York, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the Laws of the State of New York, do hereby extend all of the terms, conditions, and directives of Executive Order No. 168 for the period from the date that the disaster emergency was declared pursuant to Executive Order No. 168 until August 27, 2017.

WHEREAS, pursuant to Executive Order No. 168, a disaster has heretofore been declared in the five boroughs of New York City and the Counties of Dutchess, Nassau, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Suffolk and Westchester that incorporate the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) Region in the State of New York due to increasingly constant and continuing failures of the tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure throughout the system including at Pennsylvania Station located in the County of New York (Penn Station), that have resulted in various subway derailments, extensive track outages, and substantial service disruptions impacting the health and safety of hundreds of thousands of riders;

WHEREAS, the ongoing failures of the tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure throughout the MTA’s rail and subway system continue to pose an imminent threat and have a vast and deleterious impact on the health, safety, and livelihood of commuters, tourists, resident New Yorkers, as well as business and commerce in the Metropolitan Commuter Transportation District (MCTD), which is the recognized economic engine of the State of New York, and thereby have adversely affected the New York State economy;

WHEREAS, the track outages and service disruption necessary to implement the Amtrak Repair Program, and other repairs necessary to fix tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure throughout the MTA’s rail and subway system continue to be necessary to protect the public, health and safety of commuters, tourists, resident New Yorkers, and will continue to worsen the transportation disaster emergency that currently exists due to the condition of Penn Station and the MTA’s rail and subway system as a whole; and,

WHEREAS, it continues to be necessary for the MTA and its subsidiaries and affiliates to take significant and immediate action to assist in the repair of the tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure and in the mediation of such track outages and service disruptions due to this disaster emergency;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, ANDREW M. CUOMO, Governor of the State of New York, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the Laws of the State of New York, do hereby extend all of the terms, conditions, and directives of Executive Order No. 168 for the period from the date that the disaster emergency was declared pursuant to Executive Order No. 168 until September 26, 2017.

WHEREAS, pursuant to Executive Order No. 168, a disaster has heretofore been declared in the five boroughs of New York City and the Counties of Dutchess, Nassau, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Suffolk and Westchester that incorporate the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) Region in the State of New York due to increasingly constant and continuing failures of the tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure throughout the system including at Pennsylvania Station located in the County of New York (Penn Station), that have resulted in various subway derailments, extensive track outages, and substantial service disruptions impacting the health and safety of hundreds of thousands of riders;

WHEREAS, the ongoing failures of the tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure throughout the MTA’s rail and subway system continue to pose an imminent threat and have a vast and deleterious impact on the health, safety, and livelihood of commuters, tourists, resident New Yorkers, as well as business and commerce in the Metropolitan Commuter Transportation District (MCTD), which is the recognized economic engine of the State of New York, and thereby have adversely affected the New York State economy;

WHEREAS, the track outages and service disruption necessary to implement the Amtrak Repair Program, and other repairs necessary to fix tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure throughout the MTA’s rail and subway system continue to be necessary to protect the public, health and safety of commuters, tourists, resident New Yorkers, and will continue to worsen the transportation disaster emergency that currently exists due to the condition of Penn Station and the MTA’s rail and subway system as a whole; and,

WHEREAS, it continues to be necessary for the MTA and its subsidiaries and affiliates to take significant and immediate action to assist in the repair of the tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure and in the mediation of such track outages and service disruptions due to this disaster emergency;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, ANDREW M. CUOMO, Governor of the State of New York, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the Laws of the State of New York, do hereby extend all of the terms, conditions, and directives of Executive Order No. 168 for the period from the date that the disaster emergency was declared pursuant to Executive Order No. 168 until October 26, 2017.

WHEREAS, pursuant to Executive Order No. 168, a disaster has heretofore been declared in the five boroughs of New York City and the Counties of Dutchess, Nassau, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Suffolk and Westchester that incorporate the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) Region in the State of New York due to increasingly constant and continuing failures of the tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure throughout the system including at Pennsylvania Station located in the County of New York (Penn Station), that have resulted in various subway derailments, extensive track outages, and substantial service disruptions impacting the health and safety of hundreds of thousands of riders;

WHEREAS, the ongoing failures of the tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure throughout the MTA's rail and subway system continue to pose an imminent threat and have a vast and deleterious impact on the health, safety, and livelihood of commuters, tourists, resident New Yorkers, as well as business and commerce in the Metropolitan Commuter Transportation District (MCTD), which is the recognized economic engine of the State of New York, and thereby have adversely affected the New York State economy;

WHEREAS, the track outages and service disruption necessary to implement the Amtrak Repair Program, and other repairs necessary to fix tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure throughout the MTA's rail and subway system continue to be necessary to protect the public, health and safety of commuters, tourists, resident New Yorkers, and will continue to worsen the transportation disaster emergency that currently exists due to the condition of Penn Station and the MTA's rail and subway system as a whole; and,

WHEREAS, it continues to be necessary for the MTA and its subsidiaries and affiliates to take significant and immediate action to assist in the repair of the tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure and in the mediation of such track outages and service disruptions due to this disaster emergency;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, ANDREW M. CUOMO, Governor of the State of New York, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the Laws of the State of New York, do hereby extend all of the terms, conditions, and directives of Executive Order No. 168 for the period from the date that the disaster emergency was declared pursuant to Executive Order No. 168 until November 25, 2017.

WHEREAS, pursuant to Executive Order No. 168, a disaster has heretofore been declared in the five boroughs of New York City and the Counties of Dutchess, Nassau, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Suffolk and Westchester that incorporate the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) Region in the State of New York due to increasingly constant and continuing failures of the tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure throughout the system including at Pennsylvania Station located in the County of New York (Penn Station), that have resulted in various subway derailments, extensive track outages, and substantial service disruptions impacting the health and safety of hundreds of thousands of riders;

WHEREAS, the ongoing failures of the tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure throughout the MTA’s rail and subway system continue to pose an imminent threat and have a vast and deleterious impact on the health, safety, and livelihood of commuters, tourists, resident New Yorkers, as well as business and commerce in the Metropolitan Commuter Transportation District (MCTD), which is the recognized economic engine of the State of New York, and thereby have adversely affected the New York State economy;

WHEREAS, the track outages and service disruption necessary to implement the Amtrak Repair Program, and other repairs necessary to fix tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure throughout the MTA’s rail and subway system continue to be necessary to protect the public, health and safety of commuters, tourists, resident New Yorkers, and will continue to worsen the transportation disaster emergency that currently exists due to the condition of Penn Station and the MTA’s rail and subway system as a whole; and,

WHEREAS, it continues to be necessary for the MTA and its subsidiaries and affiliates to take significant and immediate action to assist in the repair of the tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure and in the mediation of such track outages and service disruptions due to this disaster emergency;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, ANDREW M. CUOMO, Governor of the State of New York, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the Laws of the State of New York, do hereby extend all of the terms, conditions, and directives of Executive Order No. 168 for the period from the date that the disaster emergency was declared pursuant to Executive Order No. 168 until December 25, 2017.

WHEREAS, pursuant to Executive Order No. 168, a disaster has heretofore been declared in the five boroughs of New York City and the Counties of Dutchess, Nassau, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Suffolk and Westchester that incorporate the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) Region in the State of New York due to increasingly constant and continuing failures of the tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure throughout the system including at Pennsylvania Station located in the County of New York (Penn Station), that have resulted in various subway derailments, extensive track outages, and substantial service disruptions impacting the health and safety of hundreds of thousands of riders;

WHEREAS, the ongoing failures of the tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure throughout the MTA’s rail and subway system continue to pose an imminent threat and have a vast and deleterious impact on the health, safety, and livelihood of commuters, tourists, resident New Yorkers, as well as business and commerce in the Metropolitan Commuter Transportation District (MCTD), which is the recognized economic engine of the State of New York, and thereby have adversely affected the New York State economy;

WHEREAS, the track outages and service disruption necessary to implement the Amtrak Repair Program, and other repairs necessary to fix tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure throughout the MTA’s rail and subway system continue to be necessary to protect the public, health and safety of commuters, tourists, resident New Yorkers, and will continue to worsen the transportation disaster emergency that currently exists due to the condition of Penn Station and the MTA’s rail and subway system as a whole; and,

WHEREAS, it continues to be necessary for the MTA and its subsidiaries and affiliates to take significant and immediate action to assist in the repair of the tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure and in the mediation of such track outages and service disruptions due to this disaster emergency;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, ANDREW M. CUOMO, Governor of the State of New York, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the Laws of the State of New York, do hereby extend all of the terms, conditions, and directives of Executive Order No. 168 for the period from the date that the disaster emergency was declared pursuant to Executive Order No. 168 until December 28, 2017; provided that the temporary suspension of any laws, rules, regulations or guidelines pursuant to this and any future extensions of Executive Order 168 shall apply to the extent the Chairman of the MTA or his designee, which shall only include the MTA’s President or Managing Director, determines it necessary for the purposes of awarding any contracts, leases, licenses, permits or any other written agreement that may be entered into to mitigate such disaster emergency.

WHEREAS, pursuant to Executive Order No. 168, a disaster has heretofore been declared in the five boroughs of New York City and the Counties of Dutchess, Nassau, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Suffolk and Westchester that incorporate the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) Region in the State of New York due to increasingly constant and continuing failures of the tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure throughout the system including at Pennsylvania Station located in the County of New York (Penn Station), that have resulted in various subway derailments, extensive track outages, and substantial service disruptions impacting the health and safety of hundreds of thousands of riders;

WHEREAS, the ongoing failures of the tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure throughout the MTA’s rail and subway system continue to pose an imminent threat and have a vast and deleterious impact on the health, safety, and livelihood of commuters, tourists, resident New Yorkers, as well as business and commerce in the Metropolitan Commuter Transportation District (MCTD), which is the recognized economic engine of the State of New York, and thereby have adversely affected the New York State economy;

WHEREAS, the track outages and service disruption necessary to implement the Amtrak Repair Program, and other repairs necessary to fix tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure throughout the MTA’s rail and subway system continue to be necessary to protect the public, health and safety of commuters, tourists, resident New Yorkers, and will continue to worsen the transportation disaster emergency that currently exists due to the condition of Penn Station and the MTA’s rail and subway system as a whole; and,

WHEREAS, it continues to be necessary for the MTA and its subsidiaries and affiliates to take significant and immediate action to assist in the repair of the tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure and in the mediation of such track outages and service disruptions due to this disaster emergency;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, ANDREW M. CUOMO, Governor of the State of New York, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the Laws of the State of New York, do hereby extend the state disaster emergency declared pursuant to Executive Order No. 168 and extend all of the terms, conditions, and directives of Executive Order No. 168 and the terms, conditions, and directives for any extensions of the same for the period from the date that the disaster emergency was declared pursuant to Executive Order No. 168 until January 27, 2018; provided that the temporary suspension of any laws, rules, regulations or guidelines pursuant to this and any future extensions of Executive Order 168 shall apply to the extent the Chairman of the MTA or his designee, which shall only include the MTA’s President or Managing Director, determines it necessary for the purposes of awarding any contracts, leases, licenses, permits or any other written agreement that may be entered into to mitigate such disaster emergency.

WHEREAS, pursuant to Executive Order No. 168, a disaster has heretofore been declared in the five boroughs of New York City and the Counties of Dutchess, Nassau, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Suffolk and Westchester that incorporate the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) Region in the State of New York due to increasingly constant and continuing failures of the tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure throughout the system including at Pennsylvania Station located in the County of New York (Penn Station), that have resulted in various subway derailments, extensive track outages, and substantial service disruptions impacting the health and safety of hundreds of thousands of riders;

WHEREAS, the ongoing failures of the tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure throughout the MTA’s rail and subway system continue to pose an imminent threat and have a vast and deleterious impact on the health, safety, and livelihood of commuters, tourists, resident New Yorkers, as well as business and commerce in the Metropolitan Commuter Transportation District (MCTD), which is the recognized economic engine of the State of New York, and thereby have adversely affected the New York State economy;

WHEREAS, the track outages and service disruption necessary to implement the Amtrak Repair Program, and other repairs necessary to fix tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure throughout the MTA’s rail and subway system continue to be necessary to protect the public, health and safety of commuters, tourists, resident New Yorkers, and will continue to worsen the transportation disaster emergency that currently exists due to the condition of Penn Station and the MTA’s rail and subway system as a whole; and,

WHEREAS, it continues to be necessary for the MTA and its subsidiaries and affiliates to take significant and immediate action to assist in the repair of the tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure and in the mediation of such track outages and service disruptions due to this disaster emergency;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, ANDREW M. CUOMO, Governor of the State of New York, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the Laws of the State of New York, do hereby extend the state disaster emergency declared pursuant to Executive Order No. 168 and extend all of the terms, conditions, and directives of Executive Order No. 168 and the terms, conditions, and directives for any extensions of the same for the period from the date that the disaster emergency was declared pursuant to Executive Order No. 168 until February 25, 2018; provided that the temporary suspension of any laws, rules, regulations or guidelines pursuant to this and any future extensions of Executive Order 168 shall apply to the extent the Chairman of the MTA or his designee, which shall only include the MTA’s President or Managing Director, determines it necessary for the purposes of awarding any contracts, leases, licenses, permits or any other written agreement that may be entered into to mitigate such disaster emergency.

WHEREAS, pursuant to Executive Order No. 168, a disaster has heretofore been declared in the five boroughs of New York City and the Counties of Dutchess, Nassau, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Suffolk and Westchester that incorporate the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) Region in the State of New York due to increasingly constant and continuing failures of the tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure throughout the system including at Pennsylvania Station located in the County of New York (Penn Station), that have resulted in various subway derailments, extensive track outages, and substantial service disruptions impacting the health and safety of hundreds of thousands of riders;

WHEREAS, the ongoing failures of the tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure throughout the MTA’s rail and subway system continue to pose an imminent threat and have a vast and deleterious impact on the health, safety, and livelihood of commuters, tourists, resident New Yorkers, as well as business and commerce in the Metropolitan Commuter Transportation District (MCTD), which is the recognized economic engine of the State of New York, and thereby have adversely affected the New York State economy;

WHEREAS, the track outages and service disruption necessary to implement the Amtrak Repair Program, and other repairs necessary to fix tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure throughout the MTA’s rail and subway system continue to be necessary to protect the public, health and safety of commuters, tourists, resident New Yorkers, and will continue to worsen the transportation disaster emergency that currently exists due to the condition of Penn Station and the MTA’s rail and subway system as a whole; and,

WHEREAS, it continues to be necessary for the MTA and its subsidiaries and affiliates to take significant and immediate action to assist in the repair of the tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure and in the mediation of such track outages and service disruptions due to this disaster emergency;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, ANDREW M. CUOMO, Governor of the State of New York, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the Laws of the State of New York, do hereby extend the state disaster emergency declared pursuant to Executive Order No. 168 and extend all of the terms, conditions, and directives of Executive Order No. 168 and the terms, conditions, and directives for any extensions of the same for the period from the date that the disaster emergency was declared pursuant to Executive Order No. 168 until March 25, 2018; provided that the temporary suspension of any laws, rules, regulations or guidelines pursuant to this and any future extensions of Executive Order 168 shall apply to the extent the Chairman of the MTA or his designee, which shall only include the MTA’s President or Managing Director, determines it necessary for the purposes of awarding any contracts, leases, licenses, permits or any other written agreement that may be entered into to mitigate such disaster emergency.

WHEREAS, pursuant to Executive Order No. 168, a disaster has heretofore been declared in the five boroughs of New York City and the Counties of Dutchess, Nassau, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Suffolk and Westchester that incorporate the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) Region in the State of New York due to increasingly constant and continuing failures of the tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure throughout the system including at Pennsylvania Station located in the County of New York (Penn Station), that have resulted in various subway derailments, extensive track outages, and substantial service disruptions impacting the health and safety of hundreds of thousands of riders;

WHEREAS, the ongoing failures of the tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure throughout the MTA’s rail and subway system continue to pose an imminent threat and have a vast and deleterious impact on the health, safety, and livelihood of commuters, tourists, resident New Yorkers, as well as business and commerce in the Metropolitan Commuter Transportation District (MCTD), which is the recognized economic engine of the State of New York, and thereby have adversely affected the New York State economy;

WHEREAS, the track outages and service disruption necessary to implement the Amtrak Repair Program, and other repairs necessary to fix tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure throughout the MTA’s rail and subway system continue to be necessary to protect the public, health and safety of commuters, tourists, resident New Yorkers, and will continue to worsen the transportation disaster emergency that currently exists due to the condition of Penn Station and the MTA’s rail and subway system as a whole; and,

WHEREAS, it continues to be necessary for the MTA and its subsidiaries and affiliates to take significant and immediate action to assist in the repair of the tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure and in the mediation of such track outages and service disruptions due to this disaster emergency;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, ANDREW M. CUOMO, Governor of the State of New York, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the Laws of the State of New York, do hereby extend the state disaster emergency declared pursuant to Executive Order No. 168 and extend all of the terms, conditions, and directives of Executive Order No. 168 and the terms, conditions, and directives for any extensions of the same for the period from the date that the disaster emergency was declared pursuant to Executive Order No. 168 until April 23, 2018; provided that the temporary suspension of any laws, rules, regulations or guidelines pursuant to this and any future extensions of Executive Order 168 shall apply to the extent the Chairman of the MTA or his designee, which shall only include the MTA’s President or Managing Director, determines it necessary for the purposes of awarding any contracts, leases, licenses, permits or any other written agreement that may be entered into to mitigate such disaster emergency.

WHEREAS, pursuant to Executive Order No. 168, a disaster has heretofore been declared in the five boroughs of New York City and the Counties of Dutchess, Nassau, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Suffolk and Westchester that incorporate the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) Region in the State of New York due to increasingly constant and continuing failures of the tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure throughout the system including at Pennsylvania Station located in the County of New York (Penn Station), that have resulted in various subway derailments, extensive track outages, and substantial service disruptions impacting the health and safety of hundreds of thousands of riders;

WHEREAS, the ongoing failures of the tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure throughout the MTA’s rail and subway system continue to pose an imminent threat and have a vast and deleterious impact on the health, safety, and livelihood of commuters, tourists, resident New Yorkers, as well as business and commerce in the Metropolitan Commuter Transportation District (MCTD), which is the recognized economic engine of the State of New York, and thereby have adversely affected the New York State economy;

WHEREAS, the track outages and service disruption necessary to implement the Amtrak Repair Program, and other repairs necessary to fix tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure throughout the MTA’s rail and subway system continue to be necessary to protect the public, health and safety of commuters, tourists, resident New Yorkers, and will continue to worsen the transportation disaster emergency that currently exists due to the condition of Penn Station and the MTA’s rail and subway system as a whole; and,

WHEREAS, it continues to be necessary for the MTA and its subsidiaries and affiliates to take significant and immediate action to assist in the repair of the tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure and in the mediation of such track outages and service disruptions due to this disaster emergency;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, ANDREW M. CUOMO, Governor of the State of New York, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the Laws of the State of New York, do hereby extend the state disaster emergency declared pursuant to Executive Order No. 168 and extend all of the terms, conditions, and directives of Executive Order No. 168 and the terms, conditions, and directives for any extensions of the same for the period from the date that the disaster emergency was declared pursuant to Executive Order No. 168 until May 23, 2018; provided that the temporary suspension of any laws, rules, regulations or guidelines pursuant to this and any future extensions of Executive Order 168 shall apply to the extent the Chairman of the MTA or his designee, which shall only include the MTA’s President or Managing Director, determines it necessary for the purposes of awarding any contracts, leases, licenses, permits or any other written agreement that may be entered into to mitigate such disaster emergency.

WHEREAS, pursuant to Executive Order No. 168, a disaster has heretofore been declared in the five boroughs of New York City and the Counties of Dutchess, Nassau, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Suffolk and Westchester that incorporate the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) Region in the State of New York due to increasingly constant and continuing failures of the tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure throughout the system including at Pennsylvania Station located in the County of New York (Penn Station), that have resulted in various subway derailments, extensive track outages, and substantial service disruptions impacting the health and safety of hundreds of thousands of riders;

WHEREAS, the ongoing failures of the tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure throughout the MTA’s rail and subway system continue to pose an imminent threat and have a vast and deleterious impact on the health, safety, and livelihood of commuters, tourists, resident New Yorkers, as well as business and commerce in the Metropolitan Commuter Transportation District (MCTD), which is the recognized economic engine of the State of New York, and thereby have adversely affected the New York State economy;

WHEREAS, the track outages and service disruption necessary to implement the Amtrak Repair Program, and other repairs necessary to fix tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure throughout the MTA’s rail and subway system continue to be necessary to protect the public, health and safety of commuters, tourists, resident New Yorkers, and will continue to worsen the transportation disaster emergency that currently exists due to the condition of Penn Station and the MTA’s rail and subway system as a whole; and,

WHEREAS, it continues to be necessary for the MTA and its subsidiaries and affiliates to take significant and immediate action to assist in the repair of the tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure and in the mediation of such track outages and service disruptions due to this disaster emergency;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, ANDREW M. CUOMO, Governor of the State of New York, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the Laws of the State of New York, do hereby extend the state disaster emergency declared pursuant to Executive Order No. 168 and extend all of the terms, conditions, and directives of Executive Order No. 168 and the terms, conditions, and directives for any extensions of the same for the period from the date that the disaster emergency was declared pursuant to Executive Order No. 168 until June 22, 2018; provided that the temporary suspension of any laws, rules, regulations or guidelines pursuant to this and any future extensions of Executive Order 168 shall apply to the extent the Chairman of the MTA or his designee, which shall only include the MTA’s President or Managing Director, determines it necessary for the purposes of awarding any contracts, leases, licenses, permits or any other written agreement that may be entered into to mitigate such disaster emergency.

WHEREAS, pursuant to Executive Order No. 168, a disaster has heretofore been declared in the five boroughs of New York City and the Counties of Dutchess, Nassau, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Suffolk and Westchester that incorporate the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) Region in the State of New York due to increasingly constant and continuing failures of the tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure throughout the system including at Pennsylvania Station located in the County of New York (Penn Station), that have resulted in various subway derailments, extensive track outages, and substantial service disruptions impacting the health and safety of hundreds of thousands of riders;

WHEREAS, the ongoing failures of the tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure throughout the MTA’s rail and subway system continue to pose an imminent threat and have a vast and deleterious impact on the health, safety, and livelihood of commuters, tourists, resident New Yorkers, as well as business and commerce in the Metropolitan Commuter Transportation District (MCTD), which is the recognized economic engine of the State of New York, and thereby have adversely affected the New York State economy;

WHEREAS, the track outages and service disruption necessary to implement the Amtrak Repair Program, and other repairs necessary to fix tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure throughout the MTA’s rail and subway system continue to be necessary to protect the public, health and safety of commuters, tourists, resident New Yorkers, and will continue to worsen the transportation disaster emergency that currently exists due to the condition of Penn Station and the MTA’s rail and subway system as a whole; and,

WHEREAS, it continues to be necessary for the MTA and its subsidiaries and affiliates to take significant and immediate action to assist in the repair of the tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure and in the mediation of such track outages and service disruptions due to this disaster emergency;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, ANDREW M. CUOMO, Governor of the State of New York, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the Laws of the State of New York, do hereby extend the state disaster emergency declared pursuant to Executive Order No. 168 and extend all of the terms, conditions, and directives of Executive Order No. 168 and the terms, conditions, and directives for any extensions of the same for the period from the date that the disaster emergency was declared pursuant to Executive Order No. 168 until July 22, 2018; provided that the temporary suspension of any laws, rules, regulations or guidelines pursuant to this and any future extensions of Executive Order 168 shall apply to the extent the Chairman of the MTA or his designee, which shall only include the MTA’s President or Managing Director, determines it necessary for the purposes of awarding any contracts, leases, licenses, permits or any other written agreement that may be entered into to mitigate such disaster emergency.

WHEREAS, pursuant to Executive Order No. 168, a disaster has heretofore been declared in the five boroughs of New York City and the Counties of Dutchess, Nassau, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Suffolk and Westchester that incorporate the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) Region in the State of New York due to increasingly constant and continuing failures of the tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure throughout the system including at Pennsylvania Station located in the County of New York (Penn Station), that have resulted in various subway derailments, extensive track outages, and substantial service disruptions impacting the health and safety of hundreds of thousands of riders;

WHEREAS, the ongoing failures of the tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure throughout the MTA’s rail and subway system continue to pose an imminent threat and have a vast and deleterious impact on the health, safety, and livelihood of commuters, tourists, resident New Yorkers, as well as business and commerce in the Metropolitan Commuter Transportation District (MCTD), which is the recognized economic engine of the State of New York, and thereby have adversely affected the New York State economy;

WHEREAS, the track outages and service disruption necessary to implement the Amtrak Repair Program, and other repairs necessary to fix tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure throughout the MTA’s rail and subway system continue to be necessary to protect the public, health and safety of commuters, tourists, resident New Yorkers, and will continue to worsen the transportation disaster emergency that currently exists due to the condition of Penn Station and the MTA’s rail and subway system as a whole; and,

WHEREAS, it continues to be necessary for the MTA and its subsidiaries and affiliates to take significant and immediate action to assist in the repair of the tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure and in the mediation of such track outages and service disruptions due to this disaster emergency;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, ANDREW M. CUOMO, Governor of the State of New York, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the Laws of the State of New York, do hereby extend the state disaster emergency declared pursuant to Executive Order No. 168 and extend all of the terms, conditions, and directives of Executive Order No. 168 and the terms, conditions, and directives for any extensions of the same for the period from the date that the disaster emergency was declared pursuant to Executive Order No. 168 until August 19, 2018; provided that the temporary suspension of any laws, rules, regulations or guidelines pursuant to this and any future extensions of Executive Order 168 shall apply to the extent the Chairman of the MTA or his designee, which shall only include the MTA’s President or Managing Director, determines it necessary for the purposes of awarding any contracts, leases, licenses, permits or any other written agreement that may be entered into to mitigate such disaster emergency.

WHEREAS, pursuant to Executive Order No. 168, a disaster has heretofore been declared in the five boroughs of New York City and the Counties of Dutchess, Nassau, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Suffolk and Westchester that incorporate the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) Region in the State of New York due to increasingly constant and continuing failures of the tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure throughout the system including at Pennsylvania Station located in the County of New York (Penn Station), that have resulted in various subway derailments, extensive track outages, and substantial service disruptions impacting the health and safety of hundreds of thousands of riders;

WHEREAS, the ongoing failures of the tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure throughout the MTA’s rail and subway system continue to pose an imminent threat and have a vast and deleterious impact on the health, safety, and livelihood of commuters, tourists, resident New Yorkers, as well as business and commerce in the Metropolitan Commuter Transportation District (MCTD), which is the recognized economic engine of the State of New York, and thereby have adversely affected the New York State economy;

WHEREAS, the track outages and service disruption necessary to implement the Amtrak Repair Program, and other repairs necessary to fix tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure throughout the MTA’s rail and subway system continue to be necessary to protect the public, health and safety of commuters, tourists, resident New Yorkers, and will continue to worsen the transportation disaster emergency that currently exists due to the condition of Penn Station and the MTA’s rail and subway system as a whole; and,

WHEREAS, it continues to be necessary for the MTA and its subsidiaries and affiliates to take significant and immediate action to assist in the repair of the tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure and in the mediation of such track outages and service disruptions due to this disaster emergency;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, ANDREW M. CUOMO, Governor of the State of New York, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the Laws of the State of New York, do hereby extend the state disaster emergency declared pursuant to Executive Order No. 168 and extend all of the terms, conditions, and directives of Executive Order No. 168 and the terms, conditions, and directives for any extensions of the same for the period from the date that the disaster emergency was declared pursuant to Executive Order No. 168 until September 16, 2018; provided that the temporary suspension of any laws, rules, regulations or guidelines pursuant to this and any future extensions of Executive Order 168 shall apply to the extent the Chairman of the MTA or his designee, which shall only include the MTA’s President or Managing Director, determines it necessary for the purposes of awarding any contracts, leases, licenses, permits or any other written agreement that may be entered into to mitigate such disaster emergency.

WHEREAS, pursuant to Executive Order No. 168, a disaster has heretofore been declared in the five boroughs of New York City and the Counties of Dutchess, Nassau, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Suffolk and Westchester that incorporate the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) Region in the State of New York due to increasingly constant and continuing failures of the tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure throughout the system including at Pennsylvania Station located in the County of New York (Penn Station), that have resulted in various subway derailments, extensive track outages, and substantial service disruptions impacting the health and safety of hundreds of thousands of riders;

WHEREAS, the ongoing failures of the tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure throughout the MTA’s rail and subway system continue to pose an imminent threat and have a vast and deleterious impact on the health, safety, and livelihood of commuters, tourists, resident New Yorkers, as well as business and commerce in the Metropolitan Commuter Transportation District (MCTD), which is the recognized economic engine of the State of New York, and thereby have adversely affected the New York State economy;

WHEREAS, the track outages and service disruption necessary to implement the Amtrak Repair Program, and other repairs necessary to fix tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure throughout the MTA’s rail and subway system continue to be necessary to protect the public, health and safety of commuters, tourists, resident New Yorkers, and will continue to worsen the transportation disaster emergency that currently exists due to the condition of Penn Station and the MTA’s rail and subway system as a whole; and,

WHEREAS, it continues to be necessary for the MTA and its subsidiaries and affiliates to take significant and immediate action to assist in the repair of the tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure and in the mediation of such track outages and service disruptions due to this disaster emergency;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, ANDREW M. CUOMO, Governor of the State of New York, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the Laws of the State of New York, do hereby extend the state disaster emergency declared pursuant to Executive Order No. 168 and extend all of the terms, conditions, and directives of Executive Order No. 168 and the terms, conditions, and directives for any extensions of the same for the period from the date that the disaster emergency was declared pursuant to Executive Order No. 168 until October 14, 2018; provided that the temporary suspension of any laws, rules, regulations or guidelines pursuant to this and any future extensions of Executive Order 168 shall apply to the extent the Chairman of the MTA or his designee, which shall only include the MTA’s President or Managing Director, determines it necessary for the purposes of awarding any contracts, leases, licenses, permits or any other written agreement that may be entered into to mitigate such disaster emergency.

WHEREAS, pursuant to Executive Order No. 168, a disaster has heretofore been declared in the five boroughs of New York City and the Counties of Dutchess, Nassau, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Suffolk and Westchester that incorporate the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) Region in the State of New York due to increasingly constant and continuing failures of the tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure throughout the system including at Pennsylvania Station located in the County of New York (Penn Station), that have resulted in various subway derailments, extensive track outages, and substantial service disruptions impacting the health and safety of hundreds of thousands of riders;

WHEREAS, the ongoing failures of the tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure throughout the MTA’s rail and subway system continue to pose an imminent threat andhave a vast and deleterious impact on the health, safety, and livelihood of commuters, tourists, resident New Yorkers, as well as business and commerce in the Metropolitan Commuter Transportation District (MCTD), which is the recognized economic engine of the State of New York, and thereby have adversely affected the New York State economy;

WHEREAS, the track outages and service disruption necessary to implement the Amtrak Repair Program, and other repairs necessary to fix tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure throughout the MTA’s rail and subway system continue to be necessary to protect the public, health and safety of commuters, tourists, resident New Yorkers, and will continue to worsen the transportation disaster emergency that currently exists due to the condition of Penn Station and the MTA’s rail and subway system as a whole; and,

WHEREAS, it continues to be necessary for the MTA and its subsidiaries and affiliates to take significant and immediate action to assist in the repair of the tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure and in the mediation of such track outages and service disruptions due to this disaster emergency;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, ANDREW M. CUOMO, Governor of the State of New York, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the Laws of the State of New York, do hereby extend the state disaster emergency declared pursuant to Executive Order No. 168 and extend all of the terms, conditions, and directives of Executive Order No. 168 and the terms, conditions, and directives for any extensions of the same for the period from the date that the disaster emergency was declared pursuant to Executive Order No. 168 until November 13, 2018; provided that the temporary suspension of any laws, rules, regulations or guidelines pursuant to this and any future extensions of Executive Order 168 shall apply to the extent the Chairman of the MTA or his designee, which shall only include the MTA’s President or Managing Director, determines it necessary for the purposes of awarding any contracts, leases, licenses, permits or any other written agreement that may be entered into to mitigate such disaster emergency.

WHEREAS, pursuant to Executive Order No. 168, a disaster has heretofore been declared in the five boroughs of New York City and the Counties of Dutchess, Nassau, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Suffolk and Westchester that incorporate the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) Region in the State of New York due to increasingly constant and continuing failures of the tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure throughout the system including at Pennsylvania Station located in the County of New York (Penn Station), that have resulted in various subway derailments, extensive track outages, and substantial service disruptions impacting the health and safety of hundreds of thousands of riders;

WHEREAS, the ongoing failures of the tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure throughout the MTA’s rail and subway system continue to pose an imminent threat and have a vast and deleterious impact on the health, safety, and livelihood of commuters, tourists, resident New Yorkers, as well as business and commerce in the Metropolitan Commuter Transportation District (MCTD), which is the recognized economic engine of the State of New York, and thereby have adversely affected the New York State economy;

WHEREAS, the track outages and service disruption necessary to implement the Amtrak Repair Program, and other repairs necessary to fix tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure throughout the MTA’s rail and subway system continue to be necessary to protect the public, health and safety of commuters, tourists, resident New Yorkers, and will continue to worsen the transportation disaster emergency that currently exists due to the condition of Penn Station and the MTA’s rail and subway system as a whole; and,

WHEREAS, it continues to be necessary for the MTA and its subsidiaries and affiliates to take significant and immediate action to assist in the repair of the tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure and in the mediation of such track outages and service disruptions due to this disaster emergency;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, ANDREW M. CUOMO, Governor of the State of New York, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the Laws of the State of New York, do hereby extend the state disaster emergency declared pursuant to Executive Order No. 168 and extend all of the terms, conditions, and directives of Executive Order No. 168 and the terms, conditions, and directives for any extensions of the same for the period from the date that the disaster emergency was declared pursuant to Executive Order No. 168 until December 13, 2018; provided that the temporary suspension of any laws, rules, regulations or guidelines pursuant to this and any future extensions of Executive Order 168 shall apply to the extent the Chairman of the MTA or his designee, which shall only include the MTA’s President or Managing Director, determines it necessary for the purposes of awarding any contracts, leases, licenses, permits or any other written agreement that may be entered into to mitigate such disaster emergency.

WHEREAS, pursuant to Executive Order No. 168, a disaster has heretofore been declared in the five boroughs of New York City and the Counties of Dutchess, Nassau, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Suffolk and Westchester that incorporate the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) Region in the State of New York due to increasingly constant and continuing failures of the tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure throughout the system including at Pennsylvania Station located in the County of New York (Penn Station), that have resulted in various subway derailments, extensive track outages, and substantial service disruptions impacting the health and safety of hundreds of thousands of riders;

WHEREAS, the ongoing failures of the tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure throughout the MTA’s rail and subway system continue to pose an imminent threat and have a vast and deleterious impact on the health, safety, and livelihood of commuters, tourists, resident New Yorkers, as well as business and commerce in the Metropolitan Commuter Transportation District (MCTD), which is the recognized economic engine of the State of New York, and thereby have adversely affected the New York State economy;

WHEREAS, the track outages and service disruption necessary to implement the Amtrak Repair Program, and other repairs necessary to fix tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure throughout the MTA’s rail and subway system continue to be necessary to protect the public, health and safety of commuters, tourists, resident New Yorkers, and will continue to worsen the transportation disaster emergency that currently exists due to the condition of Penn Station and the MTA’s rail and subway system as a whole; and,

WHEREAS, it continues to be necessary for the MTA and its subsidiaries and affiliates to take significant and immediate action to assist in the repair of the tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure and in the mediation of such track outages and service disruptions due to this disaster emergency;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, ANDREW M. CUOMO, Governor of the State of New York, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the Laws of the State of New York, do hereby extend the state disaster emergency declared pursuant to Executive Order No. 168 and extend all of the terms, conditions, and directives of Executive Order No. 168 and the terms, conditions, and directives for any extensions of the same for the period from the date that the disaster emergency was declared pursuant to Executive Order No. 168 until January 12, 2019; provided that the temporary suspension of any laws, rules, regulations or guidelines pursuant to this and any future extensions of Executive Order 168 shall apply to the extent the Chairman of the MTA or his designee, which shall only include the MTA’s President or Managing Director, determines it necessary for the purposes of awarding any contracts, leases, licenses, permits or any other written agreement that may be entered into to mitigate such disaster emergency.

WHEREAS, pursuant to Executive Order No. 168, a disaster has heretofore been declared in the five boroughs of New York City and the Counties of Dutchess, Nassau, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Suffolk and Westchester that incorporate the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) Region in the State of New York due to increasingly constant and continuing failures of the tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure throughout the system including at Pennsylvania Station located in the County of New York (Penn Station), that have resulted in various subway derailments, extensive track outages, and substantial service disruptions impacting the health and safety of hundreds of thousands of riders;

WHEREAS, the ongoing failures of the tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure throughout the MTA’s rail and subway system continue to pose an imminent threat and have a vast and deleterious impact on the health, safety, and livelihood of commuters, tourists, resident New Yorkers, as well as business and commerce in the Metropolitan Commuter Transportation District (MCTD), which is the recognized economic engine of the State of New York, and thereby have adversely affected the New York State economy;

WHEREAS, the track outages and service disruption necessary to implement the Amtrak Repair Program, and other repairs necessary to fix tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure throughout the MTA’s rail and subway system continue to be necessary to protect the public, health and safety of commuters, tourists, resident New Yorkers, and will continue to worsen the transportation disaster emergency that currently exists due to the condition of Penn Station and the MTA’s rail and subway system as a whole; and,

WHEREAS, it continues to be necessary for the MTA and its subsidiaries and affiliates to take significant and immediate action to assist in the repair of the tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure and in the mediation of such track outages and service disruptions due to this disaster emergency;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, ANDREW M. CUOMO, Governor of the State of New York, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the Laws of the State of New York, do hereby extend the state disaster emergency declared pursuant to Executive Order No. 168 and extend all of the terms, conditions, and directives of Executive Order No. 168 and the terms, conditions, and directives for any extensions of the same for the period from the date that the disaster emergency was declared pursuant to Executive Order No. 168 until February 11, 2019; provided that the temporary suspension of any laws, rules, regulations or guidelines pursuant to this and any future extensions of Executive Order 168 shall apply to the extent the Chairman of the MTA or his designee, which shall only include the MTA’s President or Managing Director, determines it necessary for the purposes of awarding any contracts, leases, licenses, permits or any other written agreement that may be entered into to mitigate such disaster emergency.

WHEREAS, pursuant to Executive Order No. 168, a disaster has heretofore been declared in the five boroughs of New York City and the Counties of Dutchess, Nassau, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Suffolk and Westchester that incorporate the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) Region in the State of New York due to increasingly constant and continuing failures of the tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure throughout the system including at Pennsylvania Station located in the County of New York (Penn Station), that have resulted in various subway derailments, extensive track outages, and substantial service disruptions impacting the health and safety of hundreds of thousands of riders;

WHEREAS, the ongoing failures of the tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure throughout the MTA’s rail and subway system continue to pose an imminent threat and have a vast and deleterious impact on the health, safety, and livelihood of commuters, tourists, resident New Yorkers, as well as business and commerce in the Metropolitan Commuter Transportation District (MCTD), which is the recognized economic engine of the State of New York, and thereby have adversely affected the New York State economy;

WHEREAS, the track outages and service disruption necessary to implement the Amtrak Repair Program, and other repairs necessary to fix tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure throughout the MTA’s rail and subway system continue to be necessary to protect the public, health and safety of commuters, tourists, resident New Yorkers, and will continue to worsen the transportation disaster emergency that currently exists due to the condition of Penn Station and the MTA’s rail and subway system as a whole; and,

WHEREAS, it continues to be necessary for the MTA and its subsidiaries and affiliates to take significant and immediate action to assist in the repair of the tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure and in the mediation of such track outages and service disruptions due to this disaster emergency;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, ANDREW M. CUOMO, Governor of the State of New York, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the Laws of the State of New York, do hereby extend the state disaster emergency declared pursuant to Executive Order No. 168 and extend all of the terms, conditions, and directives of Executive Order No. 168 and the terms, conditions, and directives for any extensions of the same for the period from the date that the disaster emergency was declared pursuant to Executive Order No. 168 until March 13, 2019; provided that the temporary suspension of any laws, rules, regulations or guidelines pursuant to this and any future extensions of Executive Order 168 shall apply to the extent the Chairman of the MTA or his designee, which shall only include the MTA’s President or Managing Director, determines it necessary for the purposes of awarding any contracts, leases, licenses, permits or any other written agreement that may be entered into to mitigate such disaster emergency.

WHEREAS, pursuant to Executive Order No. 168, a disaster has heretofore been declared in the five boroughs of New York City and the Counties of Dutchess, Nassau, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Suffolk and Westchester that incorporate the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) Region in the State of New York due to increasingly constant and continuing failures of the tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure throughout the system including at Pennsylvania Station located in the County of New York (Penn Station), that have resulted in various subway derailments, extensive track outages, and substantial service disruptions impacting the health and safety of hundreds of thousands of riders;

WHEREAS, the ongoing failures of the tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure throughout the MTA’s rail and subway system continue to pose an imminent threat and have a vast and deleterious impact on the health, safety, and livelihood of commuters, tourists, resident New Yorkers, as well as business and commerce in the Metropolitan Commuter Transportation District (MCTD), which is the recognized economic engine of the State of New York, and thereby have adversely affected the New York State economy;

WHEREAS, the track outages and service disruption necessary to implement the Amtrak Repair Program, and other repairs necessary to fix tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure throughout the MTA’s rail and subway system continue to be necessary to protect the public, health and safety of commuters, tourists, resident New Yorkers, and will continue to worsen the transportation disaster emergency that currently exists due to the condition of Penn Station and the MTA’s rail and subway system as a whole; and,

WHEREAS, it continues to be necessary for the MTA and its subsidiaries and affiliates to take significant and immediate action to assist in the repair of the tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure and in the mediation of such track outages and service disruptions due to this disaster emergency;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, ANDREW M. CUOMO, Governor of the State of New York, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the Laws of the State of New York, do hereby extend the state disaster emergency declared pursuant to Executive Order No. 168 and extend all of the terms, conditions, and directives of Executive Order No. 168 and the terms, conditions, and directives for any extensions of the same for the period from the date that the disaster emergency was declared pursuant to Executive Order No. 168 until April 12, 2019; provided that the temporary suspension of any laws, rules, regulations or guidelines pursuant to this and any future extensions of Executive Order 168 shall apply to the extent the Chairman of the MTA or his designee, which shall only include the MTA’s President or Managing Director, determines it necessary for the purposes of awarding any contracts, leases, licenses, permits or any other written agreement that may be entered into to mitigate such disaster emergency.

WHEREAS, pursuant to Executive Order No. 168, a disaster has heretofore been declared in the five boroughs of New York City and the Counties of Dutchess, Nassau, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Suffolk and Westchester that incorporate the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) Region in the State of New York due to increasingly constant and continuing failures of the tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure throughout the system including at Pennsylvania Station located in the County of New York (Penn Station), that have resulted in various subway derailments, extensive track outages, and substantial service disruptions impacting the health and safety of hundreds of thousands of riders;

WHEREAS, the ongoing failures of the tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure throughout the MTA’s rail and subway system continue to pose an imminent threat and have a vast and deleterious impact on the health, safety, and livelihood of commuters, tourists, resident New Yorkers, as well as business and commerce in the Metropolitan Commuter Transportation District (MCTD), which is the recognized economic engine of the State of New York, and thereby have adversely affected the New York State economy;

WHEREAS, the track outages and service disruption necessary to implement the Amtrak Repair Program, and other repairs necessary to fix tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure throughout the MTA’s rail and subway system continue to be necessary to protect the public, health and safety of commuters, tourists, resident New Yorkers, and will continue to worsen the transportation disaster emergency that currently exists due to the condition of Penn Station and the MTA’s rail and subway system as a whole; and,

WHEREAS, it continues to be necessary for the MTA and its subsidiaries and affiliates to take significant and immediate action to assist in the repair of the tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure and in the mediation of such track outages and service disruptions due to this disaster emergency;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, ANDREW M. CUOMO, Governor of the State of New York, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the Laws of the State of New York, do hereby extend the state disaster emergency declared pursuant to Executive Order No. 168 and extend all of the terms, conditions, and directives of Executive Order No. 168 and the terms, conditions, and directives for any extensions of the same for the period from the date that the disaster emergency was declared pursuant to Executive Order No. 168 until May 12, 2019; provided that the temporary suspension of any laws, rules, regulations or guidelines pursuant to this and any future extensions of Executive Order 168 shall apply to the extent the Chairman of the MTA or his designee, which shall only include the MTA’s President or Managing Director, determines it necessary for the purposes of awarding any contracts, leases, licenses, permits or any other written agreement that may be entered into to mitigate such disaster emergency.

WHEREAS, pursuant to Executive Order No. 168, a disaster has heretofore been declared in the five boroughs of New York City and the Counties of Dutchess, Nassau, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Suffolk and Westchester that incorporate the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) Region in the State of New York due to increasingly constant and continuing failures of the tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure throughout the system including at Pennsylvania Station located in the County of New York (Penn Station), that have resulted in various subway derailments, extensive track outages, and substantial service disruptions impacting the health and safety of hundreds of thousands of riders;

WHEREAS, the ongoing failures of the tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure throughout the MTA’s rail and subway system continue to pose an imminent threat and have a vast and deleterious impact on the health, safety, and livelihood of commuters, tourists, resident New Yorkers, as well as business and commerce in the Metropolitan Commuter Transportation District (MCTD), which is the recognized economic engine of the State of New York, and thereby have adversely affected the New York State economy;

WHEREAS, the track outages and service disruption necessary to implement the Amtrak Repair Program, and other repairs necessary to fix tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure throughout the MTA’s rail and subway system continue to be necessary to protect the public, health and safety of commuters, tourists, resident New Yorkers, and will continue to worsen the transportation disaster emergency that currently exists due to the condition of Penn Station and the MTA’s rail and subway system as a whole; and,

WHEREAS, it continues to be necessary for the MTA and its subsidiaries and affiliates to take significant and immediate action to assist in the repair of the tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure and in the mediation of such track outages and service disruptions due to this disaster emergency;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, ANDREW M. CUOMO, Governor of the State of New York, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the Laws of the State of New York, do hereby extend the state disaster emergency declared pursuant to Executive Order No. 168 and extend all of the terms, conditions, and directives of Executive Order No. 168 and the terms, conditions, and directives for any extensions of the same for the period from the date that the disaster emergency was declared pursuant to Executive Order No. 168 until June 11, 2019; provided that the temporary suspension of any laws, rules, regulations or guidelines pursuant to this and any future extensions of Executive Order 168 shall apply to the extent the Chairman of the MTA or his designee, which shall only include the MTA’s President or Managing Director, determines it necessary for the purposes of awarding any contracts, leases, licenses, permits or any other written agreement that may be entered into to mitigate such disaster emergency.

WHEREAS, pursuant to Executive Order No. 168, a disaster has heretofore been declared in the five boroughs of New York City and the Counties of Dutchess, Nassau, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Suffolk and Westchester that incorporate the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) Region in the State of New York due to increasingly constant and continuing failures of the tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure throughout the system including at Pennsylvania Station located in the County of New York (Penn Station), that have resulted in various subway derailments, extensive track outages, and substantial service disruptions impacting the health and safety of hundreds of thousands of riders;

WHEREAS, the ongoing failures of the tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure throughout the MTA’s rail and subway system continue to pose an imminent threat and have a vast and deleterious impact on the health, safety, and livelihood of commuters, tourists, resident New Yorkers, as well as business and commerce in the Metropolitan Commuter Transportation District (MCTD), which is the recognized economic engine of the State of New York, and thereby have adversely affected the New York State economy;

WHEREAS, the track outages and service disruption necessary to implement the Amtrak Repair Program, and other repairs necessary to fix tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure throughout the MTA’s rail and subway system continue to be necessary to protect the public, health and safety of commuters, tourists, resident New Yorkers, and will continue to worsen the transportation disaster emergency that currently exists due to the condition of Penn Station and the MTA’s rail and subway system as a whole; and,

WHEREAS, it continues to be necessary for the MTA and its subsidiaries and affiliates to take significant and immediate action to assist in the repair of the tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure and in the mediation of such track outages and service disruptions due to this disaster emergency;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, ANDREW M. CUOMO, Governor of the State of New York, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the Laws of the State of New York, do hereby extend the state disaster emergency declared pursuant to Executive Order No. 168 and extend all of the terms, conditions, and directives of Executive Order No. 168 and the terms, conditions, and directives for any extensions of the same for the period from the date that the disaster emergency was declared pursuant to Executive Order No. 168 until July 11, 2019; provided that the temporary suspension of any laws, rules, regulations or guidelines pursuant to this and any future extensions of Executive Order 168 shall apply to the extent the Chairman of the MTA or his designee, which shall only include the MTA’s President or Managing Director, determines it necessary for the purposes of awarding any contracts, leases, licenses, permits or any other written agreement that may be entered into to mitigate such disaster emergency.

WHEREAS, pursuant to Executive Order No. 168, a disaster has heretofore been declared in the five boroughs of New York City and the Counties of Dutchess, Nassau, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Suffolk and Westchester that incorporate the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) Region in the State of New York due to increasingly constant and continuing failures of the tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure throughout the system including at Pennsylvania Station located in the County of New York (Penn Station), that have resulted in various subway derailments, extensive track outages, and substantial service disruptions impacting the health and safety of hundreds of thousands of riders;

WHEREAS, the ongoing failures of the tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure throughout the MTA’s rail and subway system continue to pose an imminent threat and have a vast and deleterious impact on the health, safety, and livelihood of commuters, tourists, resident New Yorkers, as well as business and commerce in the Metropolitan Commuter Transportation District (MCTD), which is the recognized economic engine of the State of New York, and thereby have adversely affected the New York State economy;

WHEREAS, the track outages and service disruption necessary to implement the Amtrak Repair Program, and other repairs necessary to fix tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure throughout the MTA’s rail and subway system continue to be necessary to protect the public, health and safety of commuters, tourists, resident New Yorkers, and will continue to worsen the transportation disaster emergency that currently exists due to the condition of Penn Station and the MTA’s rail and subway system as a whole; and,

WHEREAS, it continues to be necessary for the MTA and its subsidiaries and affiliates to take significant and immediate action to assist in the repair of the tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure and in the mediation of such track outages and service disruptions due to this disaster emergency.

NOW, THEREFORE, I, ANDREW M. CUOMO, Governor of the State of New York, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the Laws of the State of New York, do hereby extend the state disaster emergency declared pursuant to Executive Order No. 168 and extend all of the terms, conditions, and directives of Executive Order No. 168 and the terms, conditions, and directives for any extensions of the same for the period from the date that the disaster emergency was declared pursuant to Executive Order No. 168 until August 10, 2019; provided that the temporary suspension of any laws, rules, regulations or guidelines pursuant to this and any future extensions of Executive Order 168 shall apply to the extent the Chairman of the MTA or his designee, which shall only include the MTA’s President or Managing Director, determines it necessary for the purposes of awarding any contracts, leases, licenses, permits or any other written agreement that may be entered into to mitigate such disaster emergency.

WHEREAS, pursuant to Executive Order No. 168, a disaster has heretofore been declared in the five boroughs of New York City and the Counties of Dutchess, Nassau, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Suffolk and Westchester that incorporate the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) Region in the State of New York due to increasingly constant and continuing failures of the tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure throughout the system including at Pennsylvania Station located in the County of New York (Penn Station), that have resulted in various subway derailments, extensive track outages, and substantial service disruptions impacting the health and safety of hundreds of thousands of riders;

WHEREAS, the ongoing failures of the tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure throughout the MTA’s rail and subway system continue to pose an imminent threat and have a vast and deleterious impact on the health, safety, and livelihood of commuters, tourists, resident New Yorkers, as well as business and commerce in the Metropolitan Commuter Transportation District (MCTD), which is the recognized economic engine of the State of New York, and thereby have adversely affected the New York State economy;

WHEREAS, the track outages and service disruption necessary to implement the Amtrak Repair Program, and other repairs necessary to fix tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure throughout the MTA’s rail and subway system continue to be necessary to protect the public, health and safety of commuters, tourists, resident New Yorkers, and will continue to worsen the transportation disaster emergency that currently exists due to the condition of Penn Station and the MTA’s rail and subway system as a whole; and,

WHEREAS, it continues to be necessary for the MTA and its subsidiaries and affiliates to take significant and immediate action to assist in the repair of the tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure and in the mediation of such track outages and service disruptions due to this disaster emergency;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, ANDREW M. CUOMO, Governor of the State of New York, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the Laws of the State of New York, do hereby extend the state disaster emergency declared pursuant to Executive Order No. 168 and extend all of the terms, conditions, and directives of Executive Order No. 168 and the terms, conditions, and directives for any extensions of the same for the period from the date that the disaster emergency was declared pursuant to Executive Order No. 168 until September 9, 2019; provided that the temporary suspension of any laws, rules, regulations or guidelines pursuant to this and any future extensions of Executive Order 168 shall apply to the extent the Chairman of the MTA or his designee, which shall only include the MTA’s President or Managing Director, determines it necessary for the purposes of awarding any contracts, leases, licenses, permits or any other written agreement that may be entered into to mitigate such disaster emergency.

WHEREAS, pursuant to Executive Order No. 168, a disaster has heretofore been declared in the five boroughs of New York City and the Counties of Dutchess, Nassau, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Suffolk and Westchester that incorporate the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) Region in the State of New York due to increasingly constant and continuing failures of the tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure throughout the system including at Pennsylvania Station located in the County of New York (Penn Station), that have resulted in various subway derailments, extensive track outages, and substantial service disruptions impacting the health and safety of hundreds of thousands of riders;

WHEREAS, the ongoing failures of the tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure throughout the MTA’s rail and subway system continue to pose an imminent threat and have a vast and deleterious impact on the health, safety, and livelihood of commuters, tourists, resident New Yorkers, as well as business and commerce in the Metropolitan Commuter Transportation District (MCTD), which is the recognized economic engine of the State of New York, and thereby have adversely affected the New York State economy;

WHEREAS, the track outages and service disruption necessary to implement the Amtrak Repair Program, and other repairs necessary to fix tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure throughout the MTA’s rail and subway system continue to be necessary to protect the public, health and safety of commuters, tourists, resident New Yorkers, and will continue to worsen the transportation disaster emergency that currently exists due to the condition of Penn Station and the MTA’s rail and subway system as a whole; and,

WHEREAS, it continues to be necessary for the MTA and its subsidiaries and affiliates to take significant and immediate action to assist in the repair of the tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure and in the mediation of such track outages and service disruptions due to this disaster emergency;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, ANDREW M. CUOMO, Governor of the State of New York, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the Laws of the State of New York, do hereby extend the state disaster emergency declared pursuant to Executive Order No. 168 and extend all of the terms, conditions, and directives of Executive Order No. 168 and the terms, conditions, and directives for any extensions of the same for the period from the date that the disaster emergency was declared pursuant to Executive Order No. 168 until October 9, 2019; provided that the temporary suspension of any laws, rules, regulations or guidelines pursuant to this and any future extensions of Executive Order 168 shall apply to the extent the Chairman of the MTA or his designee, which shall only include the MTA’s President or Managing Director, determines it necessary for the purposes of awarding any contracts, leases, licenses, permits or any other written agreement that may be entered into to mitigate such disaster emergency.

WHEREAS, pursuant to Executive Order No. 168, a disaster has heretofore been declared in the five boroughs of New York City and the Counties of Dutchess, Nassau, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Suffolk and Westchester that incorporate the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) Region in the State of New York due to increasingly constant and continuing failures of the tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure throughout the system including at Pennsylvania Station located in the County of New York (Penn Station), that have resulted in various subway derailments, extensive track outages, and substantial service disruptions impacting the health and safety of hundreds of thousands of riders;

WHEREAS, the ongoing failures of the tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure throughout the MTA’s rail and subway system continue to pose an imminent threat and have a vast and deleterious impact on the health, safety, and livelihood of commuters, tourists, resident New Yorkers, as well as business and commerce in the Metropolitan Commuter Transportation District (MCTD), which is the recognized economic engine of the State of New York, and thereby have adversely affected the New York State economy;

WHEREAS, the track outages and service disruption necessary to implement the Amtrak Repair Program, and other repairs necessary to fix tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure throughout the MTA’s rail and subway system continue to be necessary to protect the public, health and safety of commuters, tourists, resident New Yorkers, and will continue to worsen the transportation disaster emergency that currently exists due to the condition of Penn Station and the MTA’s rail and subway system as a whole; and,

WHEREAS, it continues to be necessary for the MTA and its subsidiaries and affiliates to take significant and immediate action to assist in the repair of the tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure and in the mediation of such track outages and service disruptions due to this disaster emergency;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, ANDREW M. CUOMO, Governor of the State of New York, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the Laws of the State of New York, do hereby extend the state disaster emergency declared pursuant to Executive Order No. 168 and extend all of the terms, conditions, and directives of Executive Order No. 168 and the terms, conditions, and directives for any extensions of the same for the period from the date that the disaster emergency was declared pursuant to Executive Order No. 168 until November 8, 2019; provided that the temporary suspension of any laws, rules, regulations or guidelines pursuant to this and any future extensions of Executive Order 168 shall apply to the extent the Chairman of the MTA or his designee, which shall only include the MTA’s President or Managing Director, determines it necessary for the purposes of awarding any contracts, leases, licenses, permits or any other written agreement that may be entered into to mitigate such disaster emergency.

WHEREAS, pursuant to Executive Order No. 168, a disaster has heretofore been declared in the five boroughs of New York City and the Counties of Dutchess, Nassau, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Suffolk and Westchester that incorporate the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) Region in the State of New York due to increasingly constant and continuing failures of the tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure throughout the system including at Pennsylvania Station located in the County of New York (Penn Station), that have resulted in various subway derailments, extensive track outages, and substantial service disruptions impacting the health and safety of hundreds of thousands of riders;

WHEREAS, the ongoing failures of the tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure throughout the MTA's rail and subway system continue to pose an imminent threat and have a vast and deleterious impact on the health, safety, and livelihood of commuters, tourists, resident New Yorkers, as well as business and commerce in the Metropolitan Commuter Transportation District (MCTD), which is the recognized economic engine of the State of New York, and thereby have adversely affected the New York State economy;

WHEREAS, the track outages and service disruption necessary to implement the Amtrak Repair Program, and other repairs necessary to fix tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure throughout the MTA's rail and subway system continue to be necessary to protect the public, health and safety of commuters, tourists, resident New Yorkers, and will continue to worsen the transportation disaster emergency that currently exists due to the condition of Penn Station and the MTA's rail and subway system as a whole; and,

WHEREAS, it continues to be necessary for the MTA and its subsidiaries and affiliates to take significant and immediate action to assist in the repair of the tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure and in the mediation of such track outages and service disruptions due to this disaster emergency;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, ANDREW M. CUOMO, Governor of the State of New York, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the Laws of the State of New York, do hereby extend the state disaster emergency declared pursuant to Executive Order No. 168 and extend all of the terms, conditions, and directives of Executive Order No. 168 and the terms, conditions, and directives for any extensions of the same for the period from the date that the disaster emergency was declared pursuant to Executive Order No. 168 until December 8, 2019; provided that the temporary suspension of any laws, rules, regulations or guidelines pursuant to this and any future extensions of Executive Order 168 shall apply to the extent the Chairman of the MTA or his designee, which shall only include the MTA's President or Managing Director, determines it necessary for the purposes of awarding any contracts, leases, licenses, permits or any other written agreement that may be entered into to mitigate such disaster emergency.

WHEREAS, pursuant to Executive Order No. 168, a disaster has heretofore been declared in the five boroughs of New York City and the Counties of Dutchess, Nassau, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Suffolk and Westchester that incorporate the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) Region in the State of New York due to increasingly constant and continuing failures of the tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure throughout the system including at Pennsylvania Station located in the County of New York (Penn Station), that have resulted in various subway derailments, extensive track outages, and substantial service disruptions impacting the health and safety of hundreds of thousands of riders;

WHEREAS, the ongoing failures of the tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure throughout the MTA's rail and subway system continue to pose an imminent threat and have a vast and deleterious impact on the health, safety, and livelihood of commuters, tourists, resident New Yorkers, as well as business and commerce in the Metropolitan Commuter Transportation District (MCTD), which is the recognized economic engine of the State of New York, and thereby have adversely affected the New York State economy;

WHEREAS, the track outages and service disruption necessary to implement the Amtrak Repair Program, and other repairs necessary to fix tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure throughout the MTA's rail and subway system continue to be necessary to protect the public, health and safety of commuters, tourists, resident New Yorkers, and will continue to worsen the transportation disaster emergency that currently exists due to the condition of Penn Station and the MTA's rail and subway system as a whole; and,

WHEREAS, it continues to be necessary for the MTA and its subsidiaries and affiliates to take significant and immediate action to assist in the repair of the tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure and in the mediation of such track outages and service disruptions due to this disaster emergency;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, ANDREW M. CUOMO, Governor of the State of New York, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the Laws of the State of New York, do hereby extend the state disaster emergency declared pursuant to Executive Order No. 168 and extend all of the terms, conditions, and directives of Executive Order No. 168 and the terms, conditions, and directives for any extensions of the same for the period from the date that the disaster emergency was declared pursuant to Executive Order No. 168 until January 5, 2020; provided that the temporary suspension of any laws, rules, regulations or guidelines pursuant to this and any future extensions of Executive Order 168 shall apply to the extent the Chairman of the MTA or his designee, which shall only include the MTA's President or Managing Director, determines it necessary for the purposes of awarding any contracts, leases, licenses, permits or any other written agreement that may be entered into to mitigate such disaster emergency.

WHEREAS, pursuant to Executive Order No. 168, a disaster has heretofore been declared in the five boroughs of New York City and the Counties of Dutchess, Nassau, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Suffolk and Westchester that incorporate the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) Region in the State of New York due to increasingly constant and continuing failures of the tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure throughout the system including at Pennsylvania Station located in the County of New York (Penn Station), that have resulted in various subway derailments, extensive track outages, and substantial service disruptions impacting the health and safety of hundreds of thousands of riders;

WHEREAS, the ongoing failures of the tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure throughout the MTA’s rail and subway system continue to pose an imminent threat and have a vast and deleterious impact on the health, safety, and livelihood of commuters, tourists, resident New Yorkers, as well as business and commerce in the Metropolitan Commuter Transportation District (MCTD), which is the recognized economic engine of the State of New York, and thereby have adversely affected the New York State economy;

WHEREAS, the track outages and service disruption necessary to implement the Amtrak Repair Program, and other repairs necessary to fix tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure throughout the MTA’s rail and subway system continue to be necessary to protect the public, health and safety of commuters, tourists, resident New Yorkers, and will continue to worsen the transportation disaster emergency that currently exists due to the condition of Penn Station and the MTA’s rail and subway system as a whole; and,

WHEREAS, it continues to be necessary for the MTA and its subsidiaries and affiliates to take significant and immediate action to assist in the repair of the tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure and in the mediation of such track outages and service disruptions due to this disaster emergency;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, ANDREW M. CUOMO, Governor of the State of New York, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the Laws of the State of New York, do hereby extend the state disaster emergency declared pursuant to Executive Order No. 168 and extend all of the terms, conditions, and directives of Executive Order No. 168 and the terms, conditions, and directives for any extensions of the same for the period from the date that the disaster emergency was declared pursuant to Executive Order No. 168 until February 4, 2020; provided that the temporary suspension of any laws, rules, regulations or guidelines pursuant to this and any future extensions of Executive Order 168 shall apply to the extent the Chairman of the MTA or his designee, which shall only include the MTA’s President or Managing Director, determines it necessary for the purposes of awarding any contracts, leases, licenses, permits or any other written agreement that may be entered into to mitigate such disaster emergency.

WHEREAS, pursuant to Executive Order No. 168, a disaster has heretofore been declared in the five boroughs of New York City and the Counties of Dutchess, Nassau, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Suffolk and Westchester that incorporate the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) Region in the State of New York due to increasingly constant and continuing failures of the tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure throughout the system including at Pennsylvania Station located in the County of New York (Penn Station), that have resulted in various subway derailments, extensive track outages, and substantial service disruptions impacting the health and safety of hundreds of thousands of riders;

WHEREAS, the ongoing failures of the tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure throughout the MTA’s rail and subway system continue to pose an imminent threat and have a vast and deleterious impact on the health, safety, and livelihood of commuters, tourists, resident New Yorkers, as well as business and commerce in the Metropolitan Commuter Transportation District (MCTD), which is the recognized economic engine of the State of New York, and thereby have adversely affected the New York State economy;

WHEREAS, the track outages and service disruption necessary to implement the Amtrak Repair Program, and other repairs necessary to fix tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure throughout the MTA’s rail and subway system continue to be necessary to protect the public, health and safety of commuters, tourists, resident New Yorkers, and will continue to worsen the transportation disaster emergency that currently exists due to the condition of Penn Station and the MTA’s rail and subway system as a whole; and,

WHEREAS, it continues to be necessary for the MTA and its subsidiaries and affiliates to take significant and immediate action to assist in the repair of the tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure and in the mediation of such track outages and service disruptions due to this disaster emergency;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, ANDREW M. CUOMO, Governor of the State of New York, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the Laws of the State of New York, do hereby extend the state disaster emergency declared pursuant to Executive Order No. 168 and extend all of the terms, conditions, and directives of Executive Order No. 168 and the terms, conditions, and directives for any extensions of the same for the period from the date that the disaster emergency was declared pursuant to Executive Order No. 168 until March 5, 2020; provided that the temporary suspension of any laws, rules, regulations or guidelines pursuant to this and any future extensions of Executive Order 168 shall apply to the extent the Chairman of the MTA or his designee, which shall only include the MTA’s President or Managing Director, determines it necessary for the purposes of awarding any contracts, leases, licenses, permits or any other written agreement that may be entered into to mitigate such disaster emergency.

WHEREAS, pursuant to Executive Order No. 168, a disaster has heretofore been declared in the five boroughs of New York City and the Counties of Dutchess, Nassau, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Suffolk and Westchester that incorporate the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) Region in the State of New York due to increasingly constant and continuing failures of the tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure throughout the system including at Pennsylvania Station located in the County of New York (Penn Station), that have resulted in various subway derailments, extensive track outages, and substantial service disruptions impacting the health and safety of hundreds of thousands of riders;

WHEREAS, the ongoing failures of the tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure throughout the MTA’s rail and subway system continue to pose an imminent threat and have a vast and deleterious impact on the health, safety, and livelihood of commuters, tourists, resident New Yorkers, as well as business and commerce in the Metropolitan Commuter Transportation District (MCTD), which is the recognized economic engine of the State of New York, and thereby have adversely affected the New York State economy;

WHEREAS, the track outages and service disruption necessary to implement the Amtrak Repair Program, and other repairs necessary to fix tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure throughout the MTA’s rail and subway system continue to be necessary to protect the public, health and safety of commuters, tourists, resident New Yorkers, and will continue to worsen the transportation disaster emergency that currently exists due to the condition of Penn Station and the MTA’s rail and subway system as a whole; and,

WHEREAS, it continues to be necessary for the MTA and its subsidiaries and affiliates to take significant and immediate action to assist in the repair of the tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure and in the mediation of such track outages and service disruptions due to this disaster emergency;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, ANDREW M. CUOMO, Governor of the State of New York, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the Laws of the State of New York, do hereby extend the state disaster emergency declared pursuant to Executive Order No. 168 and extend all of the terms, conditions, and directives of Executive Order No. 168 and the terms, conditions, and directives for any extensions of the same for the period from the date that the disaster emergency was declared pursuant to Executive Order No. 168 until April 4, 2020; provided that the temporary suspension of any laws, rules, regulations or guidelines pursuant to this and any future extensions of Executive Order 168 shall apply to the extent the Chairman of the MTA or his designee, which shall only include the MTA’s President or Managing Director, determines it necessary for the purposes of awarding any contracts, leases, licenses, permits or any other written agreement that may be entered into to mitigate such disaster emergency.

WHEREAS, pursuant to Executive Order No. 168, a disaster has heretofore been declared in the five boroughs of New York City and the Counties of Dutchess, Nassau, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Suffolk and Westchester that incorporate the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) Region in the State of New York due to increasingly constant and continuing failures of the tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure throughout the system including at Pennsylvania Station located in the County of New York (Penn Station), that have resulted in various subway derailments, extensive track outages, and substantial service disruptions impacting the health and safety of hundreds of thousands of riders;

WHEREAS, the ongoing failures of the tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure throughout the MTA’s rail and subway system continue to pose an imminent threat and have a vast and deleterious impact on the health, safety, and livelihood of commuters, tourists, resident New Yorkers, as well as business and commerce in the Metropolitan Commuter Transportation District (MCTD), which is the recognized economic engine of the State of New York, and thereby have adversely affected the New York State economy;

WHEREAS, the track outages and service disruption necessary to implement the Amtrak Repair Program, and other repairs necessary to fix tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure throughout the MTA’s rail and subway system continue to be necessary to protect the public, health and safety of commuters, tourists, resident New Yorkers, and will continue to worsen the transportation disaster emergency that currently exists due to the condition of Penn Station and the MTA’s rail and subway system as a whole; and,

WHEREAS, it continues to be necessary for the MTA and its subsidiaries and affiliates to take significant and immediate action to assist in the repair of the tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure and in the mediation of such track outages and service disruptions due to this disaster emergency;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, ANDREW M. CUOMO, Governor of the State of New York, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the Laws of the State of New York, do hereby extend the state disaster emergency declared pursuant to Executive Order No. 168 and extend all of the terms, conditions, and directives of Executive Order No. 168 and the terms, conditions, and directives for any extensions of the same for the period from the date that the disaster emergency was declared pursuant to Executive Order No. 168 until May 4, 2020; provided that the temporary suspension of any laws, rules, regulations or guidelines pursuant to this and any future extensions of Executive Order 168 shall apply to the extent the Chairman of the MTA, or his designee, which shall only include the MTA’s President or Managing Director, determines it necessary for the purposes of awarding any contracts, leases, licenses, permits or any other written agreement that may be entered into to mitigate such disaster emergency.

WHEREAS, pursuant to Executive Order No. 168, a disaster has heretofore been declared in the five boroughs of New York City and the Counties of Dutchess, Nassau, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Suffolk and Westchester that incorporate the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) Region in the State of New York due to increasingly constant and continuing failures of the tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure throughout the system including at Pennsylvania Station located in the County of New York (Penn Station), that have resulted in various subway derailments, extensive track outages, and substantial service disruptions impacting the health and safety of hundreds of thousands of riders;

WHEREAS, the ongoing failures of the tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure throughout the MTA’s rail and subway system continue to pose an imminent threat and have a vast and deleterious impact on the health, safety, and livelihood of commuters, tourists, resident New Yorkers, as well as business and commerce in the Metropolitan Commuter Transportation District (MCTD), which is the recognized economic engine of the State of New York, and thereby have adversely affected the New York State economy;

WHEREAS, the track outages and service disruption necessary to implement the Amtrak Repair Program, and other repairs necessary to fix tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure throughout the MTA’s rail and subway system continue to be necessary to protect the public, health and safety of commuters, tourists, resident New Yorkers, and will continue to worsen the transportation disaster emergency that currently exists due to the condition of Penn Station and the MTA’s rail and subway system as a whole; and,

WHEREAS, it continues to be necessary for the MTA and its subsidiaries and affiliates to take significant and immediate action to assist in the repair of the tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure and in the mediation of such track outages and service disruptions due to this disaster emergency;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, ANDREW M. CUOMO, Governor of the State of New York, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the Laws of the State of New York, do hereby extend the state disaster emergency declared pursuant to Executive Order No. 168 and extend all of the terms, conditions, and directives of Executive Order No. 168 and the terms, conditions, and directives for any extensions of the same for the period from the date that the disaster emergency was declared pursuant to Executive Order No. 168 until June 3, 2020; provided that the temporary suspension of any laws, rules, regulations or guidelines pursuant to this and any future extensions of Executive Order 168 shall apply to the extent the Chairman of the MTA, or his designee, which shall only include the MTA’s President or Managing Director, determines it necessary for the purposes of awarding any contracts, leases, licenses, permits or any other written agreement that may be entered into to mitigate such disaster emergency.

WHEREAS, pursuant to Executive Order No. 168, a disaster has heretofore been declared in the five boroughs of New York City and the Counties of Dutchess, Nassau, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Suffolk and Westchester that incorporate the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) Region in the State of New York due to increasingly constant and continuing failures of the tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure throughout the system including at Pennsylvania Station located in the County of New York (Penn Station), that have resulted in various subway derailments, extensive track outages, and substantial service disruptions impacting the health and safety of hundreds of thousands of riders;

WHEREAS, the ongoing failures of the tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure throughout the MTA’s rail and subway system continue to pose an imminent threat and have a vast and deleterious impact on the health, safety, and livelihood of commuters, tourists, resident New Yorkers, as well as business and commerce in the Metropolitan Commuter Transportation District (MCTD), which is the recognized economic engine of the State of New York, and thereby have adversely affected the New York State economy;

WHEREAS, the track outages and service disruption necessary to implement the Amtrak Repair Program, and other repairs necessary to fix tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure throughout the MTA’s rail and subway system continue to be necessary to protect the public, health and safety of commuters, tourists, resident New Yorkers, and will continue to worsen the transportation disaster emergency that currently exists due to the condition of Penn Station and the MTA’s rail and subway system as a whole; and,

WHEREAS, it continues to be necessary for the MTA and its subsidiaries and affiliates to take significant and immediate action to assist in the repair of the tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure and in the mediation of such track outages and service disruptions due to this disaster emergency;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, ANDREW M. CUOMO, Governor of the State of New York, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the Laws of the State of New York, do hereby extend the state disaster emergency declared pursuant to Executive Order No. 168 and extend all of the terms, conditions, and directives of Executive Order No. 168 and the terms, conditions, and directives for any extensions of the same for the period from the date that the disaster emergency was declared pursuant to Executive Order No. 168 until July 3, 2020; provided that the temporary suspension of any laws, rules, regulations or guidelines pursuant to this and any future extensions of Executive Order 168 shall apply to the extent the Chairman of the MTA, or his designee, which shall only include the MTA’s President or Managing Director, determines it necessary for the purposes of awarding any contracts, leases, licenses, permits or any other written agreement that may be entered into to mitigate such disaster emergency.

WHEREAS, pursuant to Executive Order No. 168, a disaster has heretofore been declared in the five boroughs of New York City and the Counties of Dutchess, Nassau, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Suffolk and Westchester that incorporate the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) Region in the State of New York due to increasingly constant and continuing failures of the tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure throughout the system including at Pennsylvania Station located in the County of New York (Penn Station), that have resulted in various subway derailments, extensive track outages, and substantial service disruptions impacting the health and safety of hundreds of thousands of riders;

WHEREAS, the ongoing failures of the tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure throughout the MTA’s rail and subway system continue to pose an imminent threat and have a vast and deleterious impact on the health, safety, and livelihood of commuters, tourists, resident New Yorkers, as well as business and commerce in the Metropolitan Commuter Transportation District (MCTD), which is the recognized economic engine of the State of New York, and thereby have adversely affected the New York State economy;

WHEREAS, the track outages and service disruption necessary to implement the Amtrak Repair Program, and other repairs necessary to fix tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure throughout the MTA’s rail and subway system continue to be necessary to protect the public, health and safety of commuters, tourists, resident New Yorkers, and will continue to worsen the transportation disaster emergency that currently exists due to the condition of Penn Station and the MTA’s rail and subway system as a whole; and,

WHEREAS, it continues to be necessary for the MTA and its subsidiaries and affiliates to take significant and immediate action to assist in the repair of the tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure and in the mediation of such track outages and service disruptions due to this disaster emergency;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, ANDREW M. CUOMO, Governor of the State of New York, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the Laws of the State of New York, do hereby extend the state disaster emergency declared pursuant to Executive Order No. 168 and extend all of the terms, conditions, and directives of Executive Order No. 168 and the terms, conditions, and directives for any extensions of the same for the period from the date that the disaster emergency was declared pursuant to Executive Order No. 168 until August 2, 2020; provided that the temporary suspension of any laws, rules, regulations or guidelines pursuant to this and any future extensions of Executive Order 168 shall apply to the extent the Chairman of the MTA, or his designee, which shall only include the MTA’s President or Managing Director, determines it necessary for the purposes of awarding any contracts, leases, licenses, permits or any other written agreement that may be entered into to mitigate such disaster emergency.

WHEREAS, pursuant to Executive Order No. 168, a disaster has heretofore been declared in the five boroughs of New York City and the Counties of Dutchess, Nassau, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Suffolk and Westchester that incorporate the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) Region in the State of New York due to increasingly constant and continuing failures of the tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure throughout the system including at Pennsylvania Station located in the County of New York (Penn Station), that have resulted in various subway derailments, extensive track outages, and substantial service disruptions impacting the health and safety of hundreds of thousands of riders;

WHEREAS, the ongoing failures of the tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure throughout the MTA’s rail and subway system continue to pose an imminent threat and have a vast and deleterious impact on the health, safety, and livelihood of commuters, tourists, resident New Yorkers, as well as business and commerce in the Metropolitan Commuter Transportation District (MCTD), which is the recognized economic engine of the State of New York, and thereby have adversely affected the New York State economy;

WHEREAS, the track outages and service disruption necessary to implement the Amtrak Repair Program, and other repairs necessary to fix tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure throughout the MTA’s rail and subway system continue to be necessary to protect the public, health and safety of commuters, tourists, resident New Yorkers, and will continue to worsen the transportation disaster emergency that currently exists due to the condition of Penn Station and the MTA’s rail and subway system as a whole; and,

WHEREAS, it continues to be necessary for the MTA and its subsidiaries and affiliates to take significant and immediate action to assist in the repair of the tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure and in the mediation of such track outages and service disruptions due to this disaster emergency;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, ANDREW M. CUOMO, Governor of the State of New York, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the Laws of the State of New York, do hereby extend the state disaster emergency declared pursuant to Executive Order No. 168 and extend all of the terms, conditions, and directives of Executive Order No. 168 and the terms, conditions, and directives for any extensions of the same for the period from the date that the disaster emergency was declared pursuant to Executive Order No. 168 until September 1, 2020; provided that the temporary suspension of any laws, rules, regulations or guidelines pursuant to this and any future extensions of Executive Order 168 shall apply to the extent the Chairman of the MTA, or his designee, which shall only include the MTA’s President or Managing Director, determines it necessary for the purposes of awarding any contracts, leases, licenses, permits or any other written agreement that may be entered into to mitigate such disaster emergency.

WHEREAS, pursuant to Executive Order No. 168, a disaster has heretofore been declared in the five boroughs of New York City and the Counties of Dutchess, Nassau, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Suffolk and Westchester that incorporate the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) Region in the State of New York due to increasingly constant and continuing failures of the tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure throughout the system including at Pennsylvania Station located in the County of New York (Penn Station), that have resulted in various subway derailments, extensive track outages, and substantial service disruptions impacting the health and safety of hundreds of thousands of riders;

WHEREAS, the ongoing failures of the tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure throughout the MTA’s rail and subway system continue to pose an imminent threat and have a vast and deleterious impact on the health, safety, and livelihood of commuters, tourists, resident New Yorkers, as well as business and commerce in the Metropolitan Commuter Transportation District (MCTD), which is the recognized economic engine of the State of New York, and thereby have adversely affected the New York State economy;

WHEREAS, the track outages and service disruption necessary to implement the Amtrak Repair Program, and other repairs necessary to fix tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure throughout the MTA’s rail and subway system continue to be necessary to protect the public, health and safety of commuters, tourists, resident New Yorkers, and will continue to worsen the transportation disaster emergency that currently exists due to the condition of Penn Station and the MTA’s rail and subway system as a whole; and,

WHEREAS, it continues to be necessary for the MTA and its subsidiaries and affiliates to take significant and immediate action to assist in the repair of the tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure and in the mediation of such track outages and service disruptions due to this disaster emergency;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, ANDREW M. CUOMO, Governor of the State of New York, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the Laws of the State of New York, do hereby extend the state disaster emergency declared pursuant to Executive Order No. 168 and extend all of the terms, conditions, and directives of Executive Order No. 168 and the terms, conditions, and directives for any extensions of the same for the period from the date that the disaster emergency was declared pursuant to Executive Order No. 168 until October 1, 2020; provided that the temporary suspension of any laws, rules, regulations or guidelines pursuant to this and any future extensions of Executive Order 168 shall apply to the extent the Chairman of the MTA, or his designee, which shall only include the MTA’s President or Managing Director, determines it necessary for the purposes of awarding any contracts, leases, licenses, permits or any other written agreement that may be entered into to mitigate such disaster emergency.

WHEREAS, pursuant to Executive Order No. 168, a disaster has heretofore been declared in the five boroughs of New York City and the Counties of Dutchess, Nassau, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Suffolk and Westchester that incorporate the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) Region in the State of New York due to increasingly constant and continuing failures of the tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure throughout the system including at Pennsylvania Station located in the County of New York (Penn Station), that have resulted in various subway derailments, extensive track outages, and substantial service disruptions impacting the health and safety of hundreds of thousands of riders;

WHEREAS, the ongoing failures of the tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure throughout the MTA’s rail and subway system continue to pose an imminent threat and have a vast and deleterious impact on the health, safety, and livelihood of commuters, tourists, resident New Yorkers, as well as business and commerce in the Metropolitan Commuter Transportation District (MCTD), which is the recognized economic engine of the State of New York, and thereby have adversely affected the New York State economy;

WHEREAS, the track outages and service disruption necessary to implement the Amtrak Repair Program, and other repairs necessary to fix tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure throughout the MTA’s rail and subway system continue to be necessary to protect the public, health and safety of commuters, tourists, resident New Yorkers, and will continue to worsen the transportation disaster emergency that currently exists due to the condition of Penn Station and the MTA’s rail and subway system as a whole; and,

WHEREAS, it continues to be necessary for the MTA and its subsidiaries and affiliates to take significant and immediate action to assist in the repair of the tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure and in the mediation of such track outages and service disruptions due to this disaster emergency;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, ANDREW M. CUOMO, Governor of the State of New York, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the Laws of the State of New York, do hereby extend the state disaster emergency declared pursuant to Executive Order No. 168 and extend all of the terms, conditions, and directives of Executive Order No. 168 and the terms, conditions, and directives for any extensions of the same for the period from the date that the disaster emergency was declared pursuant to Executive Order No. 168 until October 31, 2020; provided that the temporary suspension of any laws, rules, regulations or guidelines pursuant to this and any future extensions of Executive Order 168 shall apply to the extent the Chairman of the MTA, or his designee, which shall only include the MTA’s President or Managing Director, determines it necessary for the purposes of awarding any contracts, leases, licenses, permits or any other written agreement that may be entered into to mitigate such disaster emergency.

WHEREAS, pursuant to Executive Order No. 168, a disaster has heretofore been declared in the five boroughs of New York City and the Counties of Dutchess, Nassau, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Suffolk and Westchester that incorporate the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) Region in the State of New York due to increasingly constant and continuing failures of the tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure throughout the system including at Pennsylvania Station located in the County of New York (Penn Station), that have resulted in various subway derailments, extensive track outages, and substantial service disruptions impacting the health and safety of hundreds of thousands of riders;

WHEREAS, the ongoing failures of the tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure throughout the MTA’s rail and subway system continue to pose an imminent threat and have a vast and deleterious impact on the health, safety, and livelihood of commuters, tourists, resident New Yorkers, as well as business and commerce in the Metropolitan Commuter Transportation District (MCTD), which is the recognized economic engine of the State of New York, and thereby have adversely affected the New York State economy;

WHEREAS, the track outages and service disruption necessary to implement the Amtrak Repair Program, and other repairs necessary to fix tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure throughout the MTA’s rail and subway system continue to be necessary to protect the public, health and safety of commuters, tourists, resident New Yorkers, and will continue to worsen the transportation disaster emergency that currently exists due to the condition of Penn Station and the MTA’s rail and subway system as a whole; and,

WHEREAS, it continues to be necessary for the MTA and its subsidiaries and affiliates to take significant and immediate action to assist in the repair of the tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure and in the mediation of such track outages and service disruptions due to this disaster emergency;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, ANDREW M. CUOMO, Governor of the State of New York, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the Laws of the State of New York, do hereby extend the state disaster emergency declared pursuant to Executive Order No. 168 and extend all of the terms, conditions, and directives of Executive Order No. 168 and the terms, conditions, and directives for any extensions of the same for the period from the date that the disaster emergency was declared pursuant to Executive Order No. 168 until November 30, 2020; provided that the temporary suspension of any laws, rules, regulations or guidelines pursuant to this and any future extensions of Executive Order 168 shall apply to the extent the Chairman of the MTA, or his designee, which shall only include the MTA’s President or Managing Director, determines it necessary for the purposes of awarding any contracts, leases, licenses, permits or any other written agreement that may be entered into to mitigate such disaster emergency.

WHEREAS, pursuant to Executive Order No. 168, a disaster has heretofore been declared in the five boroughs of New York City and the Counties of Dutchess, Nassau, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Suffolk and Westchester that incorporate the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) Region in the State of New York due to increasingly constant and continuing failures of the tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure throughout the system including at Pennsylvania Station located in the County of New York (Penn Station), that have resulted in various subway derailments, extensive track outages, and substantial service disruptions impacting the health and safety of hundreds of thousands of riders;

WHEREAS, the ongoing failures of the tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure throughout the MTA’s rail and subway system continue to pose an imminent threat and have a vast and deleterious impact on the health, safety, and livelihood of commuters, tourists, resident New Yorkers, as well as business and commerce in the Metropolitan Commuter Transportation District (MCTD), which is the recognized economic engine of the State of New York, and thereby have adversely affected the New York State economy;

WHEREAS, the track outages and service disruption necessary to implement the Amtrak Repair Program, and other repairs necessary to fix tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure throughout the MTA’s rail and subway system continue to be necessary to protect the public, health and safety of commuters, tourists, resident New Yorkers, and will continue to worsen the transportation disaster emergency that currently exists due to the condition of Penn Station and the MTA’s rail and subway system as a whole; and,

WHEREAS, it continues to be necessary for the MTA and its subsidiaries and affiliates to take significant and immediate action to assist in the repair of the tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure and in the mediation of such track outages and service disruptions due to this disaster emergency;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, ANDREW M. CUOMO, Governor of the State of New York, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the Laws of the State of New York, do hereby extend the state disaster emergency declared pursuant to Executive Order No. 168 and extend all of the terms, conditions, and directives of Executive Order No. 168 and the terms, conditions, and directives for any extensions of the same for the period from the date that the disaster emergency was declared pursuant to Executive Order No. 168 until December 30, 2020; provided that the temporary suspension of any laws, rules, regulations or guidelines pursuant to this and any future extensions of Executive Order 168 shall apply to the extent the Chairman of the MTA, or his designee, which shall only include the MTA’s President or Managing Director, determines it necessary for the purposes of awarding any contracts, leases, licenses, permits or any other written agreement that may be entered into to mitigate such disaster emergency.

WHEREAS, pursuant to Executive Order No. 168, a disaster has heretofore been declared in the five boroughs of New York City and the Counties of Dutchess, Nassau, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Suffolk and Westchester that incorporate the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) Region in the State of New York due to increasingly constant and continuing failures of the tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure throughout the system including at Pennsylvania Station located in the County of New York (Penn Station), that have resulted in various subway derailments, extensive track outages, and substantial service disruptions impacting the health and safety of hundreds of thousands of riders;

WHEREAS, the ongoing failures of the tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure throughout the MTA’s rail and subway system continue to pose an imminent threat and have a vast and deleterious impact on the health, safety, and livelihood of commuters, tourists, resident New Yorkers, as well as business and commerce in the Metropolitan Commuter Transportation District (MCTD), which is the recognized economic engine of the State of New York, and thereby have adversely affected the New York State economy;

WHEREAS, the track outages and service disruption necessary to implement the Amtrak Repair Program, and other repairs necessary to fix tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure throughout the MTA’s rail and subway system continue to be necessary to protect the public, health and safety of commuters, tourists, resident New Yorkers, and will continue to worsen the transportation disaster emergency that currently exists due to the condition of Penn Station and the MTA’s rail and subway system as a whole; and,

WHEREAS, it continues to be necessary for the MTA and its subsidiaries and affiliates to take significant and immediate action to assist in the repair of the tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure and in the mediation of such track outages and service disruptions due to this disaster emergency;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, ANDREW M. CUOMO, Governor of the State of New York, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the Laws of the State of New York, do hereby extend the state disaster emergency declared pursuant to Executive Order No. 168 and extend all of the terms, conditions, and directives of Executive Order No. 168 and the terms, conditions, and directives for any extensions of the same for the period from the date that the disaster emergency was declared pursuant to Executive Order No. 168 until January 29, 2021; provided that the temporary suspension of any laws, rules, regulations or guidelines pursuant to this and any future extensions of Executive Order 168 shall apply to the extent the Chairman of the MTA, or his designee, which shall only include the MTA’s President or Managing Director, determines it necessary for the purposes of awarding any contracts, leases, licenses, permits or any other written agreement that may be entered into to mitigate such disaster emergency.

WHEREAS, pursuant to Executive Order No. 168, a disaster has heretofore been declared in the five boroughs of New York City and the Counties of Dutchess, Nassau, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Suffolk and Westchester that incorporate the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) Region in the State of New York due to increasingly constant and continuing failures of the tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure throughout the system including at Pennsylvania Station located in the County of New York (Penn Station), that have resulted in various subway derailments, extensive track outages, and substantial service disruptions impacting the health and safety of hundreds of thousands of riders;

WHEREAS, the ongoing failures of the tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure throughout the MTA’s rail and subway system continue to pose an imminent threat and have a vast and deleterious impact on the health, safety, and livelihood of commuters, tourists, resident New Yorkers, as well as business and commerce in the Metropolitan Commuter Transportation District (MCTD), which is the recognized economic engine of the State of New York, and thereby have adversely affected the New York State economy;

WHEREAS, the track outages and service disruption necessary to implement the Amtrak Repair Program, and other repairs necessary to fix tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure throughout the MTA’s rail and subway system continue to be necessary to protect the public, health and safety of commuters, tourists, resident New Yorkers, and will continue to worsen the transportation disaster emergency that currently exists due to the condition of Penn Station and the MTA’s rail and subway system as a whole; and,

WHEREAS, it continues to be necessary for the MTA and its subsidiaries and affiliates to take significant and immediate action to assist in the repair of the tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure and in the mediation of such track outages and service disruptions due to this disaster emergency;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, ANDREW M. CUOMO, Governor of the State of New York, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the Laws of the State of New York, do hereby extend the state disaster emergency declared pursuant to Executive Order No. 168 and extend all of the terms, conditions, and directives of Executive Order No. 168 and the terms, conditions, and directives for any extensions of the same for the period from the date that the disaster emergency was declared pursuant to Executive Order No. 168 until February 28, 2021; provided that the temporary suspension of any laws, rules, regulations or guidelines pursuant to this and any future extensions of Executive Order 168 shall apply to the extent the Chairman of the MTA, or his designee, which shall only include the MTA’s President or Managing Director, determines it necessary for the purposes of awarding any contracts, leases, licenses, permits or any other written agreement that may be entered into to mitigate such disaster emergency.

WHEREAS, pursuant to Executive Order No. 168, a disaster has heretofore been declared in the five boroughs of New York City and the Counties of Dutchess, Nassau, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Suffolk and Westchester that incorporate the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) Region in the State of New York due to increasingly constant and continuing failures of the tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure throughout the system including at Pennsylvania Station located in the County of New York (Penn Station), that have resulted in various subway derailments, extensive track outages, and substantial service disruptions impacting the health and safety of hundreds of thousands of riders;

WHEREAS, the ongoing failures of the tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure throughout the MTA's rail and subway system continue to pose an imminent threat and have a vast and deleterious impact on the health, safety, and livelihood of commuters, tourists, resident New Yorkers, as well as business and conim.erce in the Metropolitan Commuter Transportation District (MCTD), which is the recognized economic engine of the State of New York, and thereby have adversely affected the New York State economy;

WHEREAS, the.track outages and service disruption necessary to implement the Amtrak Repair Program, and other repairs necessary to fix tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure throughout the MTA's rail and subway system continue to be necessary to protect the public, health and safety of commuters, tourists, resident New Yorkers, and will continue to worsen the transportation disaster emergency that currently exists due to the condition of Penn Station and the MTA's rail and subway system as a whole; and,

WHEREAS, it continues to be necessary for the MTA and its subsidiaries and affiliates to take significant and im.rnediate action to assist in the repair of the tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure and in the mediation of such track outages and service disruptions due to this. disaster emergency;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, ANDREW M. CUOMO, Governor of the State of New York, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the Laws of the State of New York, do hereby extend the state disaster emergency declared pursuant to Executive Order No. 168 and extend all of the terms, conditions, and directives of Executive Order No. 168 and ·the terms, conditions, and directives for any extensions of the same for the period from the date that the disaster emergency was declared pursuant to Executive Order No. 168 until March 30, 2021; provided that the temporary suspension of any laws, rules, regulations or guidelines pursuant to this and any future extensions of Executive Order 168 shall apply to the extent the Chairman of the MTA, or his designee, which shall only include the MTA's President or Managing Director, detennines it necessary for the purposes of awarding any contracts, leases, licenses, permits. or any other written agreement that may be entered into to mitigate such disaster emergency.

WHEREAS, pursuant to Executive Order No. 168, a disaster has heretofore been declared in the five boroughs of New York City and the Counties of Dutchess, Nassau, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Suffolk and Westchester that incorporate the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) Region in the State of New York due to increasingly constant and continuing failures of the tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure throughout the system including at Pennsylvania Station located in the County of New York (Penn Station), that have resulted in various subway derailments, extensive track outages, and substantial service disruptions impacting the health and safety of hundreds of thousands of riders;

WHEREAS, the ongoing failures of the tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure throughout the MTA’s rail and subway system continue to pose an imminent threat and have a vast and deleterious impact on the health, safety, and livelihood of commuters, tourists, resident New Yorkers, as well as business and commerce in the Metropolitan Commuter Transportation District (MCTD), which is the recognized economic engine of the State of New York, and thereby have adversely affected the New York State economy;

WHEREAS, the track outages and service disruption necessary to implement the Amtrak Repair Program, and other repairs necessary to fix tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure throughout the MTA’s rail and subway system continue to be necessary to protect the public, health and safety of commuters, tourists, resident New Yorkers, and will continue to worsen the transportation disaster emergency that currently exists due to the condition of Penn Station and the MTA’s rail and subway system as a whole; and,

WHEREAS, it continues to be necessary for the MTA and its subsidiaries and affiliates to take significant and immediate action to assist in the repair of the tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure and in the mediation of such track outages and service disruptions due to this disaster emergency;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, ANDREW M. CUOMO, Governor of the State of New York, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the Laws of the State of New York, do hereby extend the state disaster emergency declared pursuant to Executive Order No. 168 and extend all of the terms, conditions, and directives of Executive Order No. 168 and the terms, conditions, and directives for any extensions of the same for the period from the date that the disaster emergency was declared pursuant to Executive Order No. 168 until April 29, 2021; provided that the temporary suspension of any laws, rules, regulations or guidelines pursuant to this and any future extensions of Executive Order 168 shall apply to the extent the Chairman of the MTA, or his designee, which shall only include the MTA’s President or Managing Director, determines it necessary for the purposes of awarding any contracts, leases, licenses, permits or any other written agreement that may be entered into to mitigate such disaster emergency.

WHEREAS, pursuant to Executive Order No. 168, a disaster has heretofore been declared in the five boroughs of New York City and the Counties of Dutchess, Nassau, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Suffolk and Westchester that incorporate the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) Region in the State of New York due to increasingly constant and continuing failures of the tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure throughout the system including at Pennsylvania Station located in the County of New York (Penn Station), that have resulted in various subway derailments, extensive track outages, and substantial service disruptions impacting the health and safety of hundreds of thousands of riders;

WHEREAS, the ongoing failures of the tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure throughout the MTA’s rail and subway system continue to pose an imminent threat and have a vast and deleterious impact on the health, safety, and livelihood of commuters, tourists, resident New Yorkers, as well as business and commerce in the Metropolitan Commuter Transportation District (MCTD), which is the recognized economic engine of the State of New York, and thereby have adversely affected the New York State economy;

WHEREAS, the track outages and service disruption necessary to implement the Amtrak Repair Program, and other repairs necessary to fix tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure throughout the MTA’s rail and subway system continue to be necessary to protect the public, health and safety of commuters, tourists, resident New Yorkers, and will continue to worsen the transportation disaster emergency that currently exists due to the condition of Penn Station and the MTA’s rail and subway system as a whole; and,

WHEREAS, it continues to be necessary for the MTA and its subsidiaries and affiliates to take significant and immediate action to assist in the repair of the tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure and in the mediation of such track outages and service disruptions due to this disaster emergency;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, ANDREW M. CUOMO, Governor of the State of New York, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the Laws of the State of New York, do hereby extend the state disaster emergency declared pursuant to Executive Order No. 168 and extend all of the terms, conditions, and directives of Executive Order No. 168 and the terms, conditions, and directives for any extensions of the same for the period from the date that the disaster emergency was declared pursuant to Executive Order No. 168 until May 29, 2021; provided that the temporary suspension of any laws, rules, regulations or guidelines pursuant to this and any future extensions of Executive Order 168 shall apply to the extent the Chairman of the MTA, or his designee, which shall only include the MTA’s President or Managing Director, determines it necessary for the purposes of awarding any contracts, leases, licenses, permits or any other written agreement that may be entered into to mitigate such disaster emergency.

WHEREAS, pursuant to Executive Order No. 168, a disaster has heretofore been declared in the five boroughs of New York City and the Counties of Dutchess, Nassau, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Suffolk and Westchester that incorporate the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) Region in the State of New York due to increasingly constant and continuing failures of the tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure throughout the system including at Pennsylvania Station located in the County of New York (Penn Station), that have resulted in various subway derailments, extensive track outages, and substantial service disruptions impacting the health and safety of hundreds of thousands of riders;

WHEREAS, the ongoing failures of the tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure throughout the MTA’s rail and subway system continue to pose an imminent threat and have a vast and deleterious impact on the health, safety, and livelihood of commuters, tourists, resident New Yorkers, as well as business and commerce in the Metropolitan Commuter Transportation District (MCTD), which is the recognized economic engine of the State of New York, and thereby have adversely affected the New York State economy;

WHEREAS, the track outages and service disruption necessary to implement the Amtrak Repair Program, and other repairs necessary to fix tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure throughout the MTA’s rail and subway system continue to be necessary to protect the public, health and safety of commuters, tourists, resident New Yorkers, and will continue to worsen the transportation disaster emergency that currently exists due to the condition of Penn Station and the MTA’s rail and subway system as a whole; and,

WHEREAS, it continues to be necessary for the MTA and its subsidiaries and affiliates to take significant and immediate action to assist in the repair of the tracks, signals, switches and other transportation infrastructure and in the mediation of such track outages and service disruptions due to this disaster emergency;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, ANDREW M. CUOMO, Governor of the State of New York, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the Laws of the State of New York, do hereby extend the state disaster emergency declared pursuant to Executive Order No. 168 and extend all of the terms, conditions, and directives of Executive Order No. 168 and the terms, conditions, and directives for any extensions of the same for the period from the date that the disaster emergency was declared pursuant to Executive Order No. 168 until June 28, 2021; provided that the temporary suspension of any laws, rules, regulations or guidelines pursuant to this and any future extensions of Executive Order 168 shall apply to the extent the Chairman of the MTA, or his designee, which shall only include the MTA’s President or Managing Director, determines it necessary for the purposes of awarding any contracts, leases, licenses, permits or any other written agreement that may be entered into to mitigate such disaster emergency.