Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani signed two more five-day extensions on Oct. 12: one for the Department of Correction emergency first declared in September 2021, and one for the migrant shelter emergency first declared in October 2022. A city notice published the orders on Oct. 20.
Each order lasts five days unless ended sooner, so both had already run their course by the time the public notice appeared.
Order 1.56: the jail emergency
Under the state of emergency first declared in Emergency Executive Order No. 241 on Sept. 15, 2021, the Department of Correction has not been required to comply with “various laws and regulations.” Order 1.56 extends Section 1 of Order 1.55, dated Oct. 7, for five more days.
The order acknowledges that orders issued before Jan. 5, 2026, contained no plan to bring the department back into compliance. It directs DOC, with the Law Department, to keep updating the mayor on suspensions that can be allowed to lapse under an action plan created on Jan. 5.
Order 2.56: the shelter emergency
The second emergency, declared in Order No. 224 on Oct. 7, 2022, has let the city run Humanitarian Emergency Response and Relief Centers to house new arrivals. Order 2.56 extends Order 2.55 by five days.
The Department of Social Services and the Department of Homeless Services must keep the mayor updated on “efforts to phase out the continued use of facilities” that have relied on the suspended rules.
An appendix lists what remains suspended for those facilities: Sections 21-124, 21-309 and 21-312 of the Administrative Code.
What the notice does not say
Neither order names a date for ending its emergency, says how many facilities are still affected, or lists the jail rules that remain suspended. The suspended Administrative Code sections are cited by number only, with no explanation of what they require.
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