NY Governor:
"The law is if you come in from another state you have to self-quarantine for 14 days. If you don't, and you get caught, you will have violated the law — you can be fined. If you fly into New York, we'll have your name, we'll know where you're supposed to be staying, (and) there will be random checks. You get pulled over by a police officer and he looks at where your residence is and says, 'How long have you been here?'"
Aboard flights, you will be handed this form and asked to fill it out:
If you drive in, do not expect to be stopped at the NYS border. There are no checkpoints physically blocking people coming in. NY Gov, said that is considered a
blockade and an act of civil war, as the
only time a blockade between states was ever erected was during the U.S. Civil War.
He also said, no state can
ban any travelers from specific states from coming into their state, as that is unconstitutional. When other states tried this to NY back in March, [I'm talking about you, R.I.,] the Gov. threatened to file a lawsuit against them. They dropped the proposed ban as they wouldn't win. In turnaround, he will NOT be trying to ban other states from entering. The best he or any state can do is the travel advisory with the mandatory quarantine
once some one enters the state.
NY has developed a state of the art, contact tracing program. So, if one drives in, doesn't quarantine and infects people with COVID, the NYS Dept of Health will know. A couple weeks ago when a person from FL came up to attend a friend's graduation. He had COVID and unknowingly infected 13 other people. The contact tracers were able trace it back to him and also tamp down that fire. This was before the quarantine.
Now, a fine for quarantine violators is:
"If a person violates the quarantine, they may be subject to a judicial order and mandatory quarantine.
They may have to pay the costs of quarantine.
$2000 for first violation.
$5000 for second violation.
Up to $10,000 if they cause harm."
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Welcome (back) to NY State!
"The requirements of the travel advisory do not apply to any individual passing through designated states for a limited duration (i.e., less than 24 hours) through the course of travel.
Examples of such brief passage include but are not limited to: stopping at rest stops for vehicles, buses, and/or trains; or lay-overs for air travel, bus travel, or train travel.
The travel advisory requires all New Yorkers, as well as those visiting from out of state, to take personal responsibility for complying with the advisory in the best interest of public health and safety.
For the latest info (NY only) go to the NYS Dept of Health:
https://coronavirus.health.ny.gov/covid-19-travel-advisory
For questions about the travel advisory please refer to the guidance linked
here.
For general inquires contact the call the Hotline: 1-888-364-3065 or
Ask a Question.
In NYS: To file a report of an individual failing to adhere to the quarantine pursuant to the travel advisory click here or call 1-833-789-0470.
In CT: residents to report if they see quarantine violators. They are to call 211.
NJ: Call your State's Dept of Health.
BTW, the Govs hope people DO report violators. That if someone attends a business meeting when they should be quarantining instead, the coworker can send off an email somewhere to report them. When people from one of the high infection states checks into a hotel and they are seen not quarantining, they get reported too, etc.
Did he go to one of the state's testing sites? They are different than various city or private lab testing sites.
