New York Codes, Rules and Regulations
Title 9 - EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT
Subtitle A - Governor's Office
Chapter I - Executive Orders
Part 4 - Executive Orders (Mario M. Cuomo)
Section 4.31 - Executive Order No. 31: Directing that the Chief of Staff to the Governor order into active service the organized militia to assist civil agencies and authorities in the City of Buffalo in disaster recovery efforts. [*][DAGGER]

1. Major General Vito J. Castellano, Chief of Staff to the Governor, is hereby appointed commander of all personnel ordered into the active service of the State.

2. Units and members of the organized militia who shall perform State active duty by order of the Chief of Staff to the Governor will immediately assemble at their local armories when so ordered, and will remain assembled pending further orders as to their disposition by the Chief of Staff to the Governor.

All enlistments, reenlistments or voluntary extension of enlistments which expire after December 29, 1983, and during the period for which the members are currently ordered into the active service of the State are hereby extended for the duration of such duty in the active service of the State.

Signed: Mario M. Cuomo

Dated: December 29, 1983

PROCLAMATION

WHEREAS, the Governor is Commander-in-Chief of the Militia of the State, pursuant to the Constitution of the State, as restated in Section 3 of the Military Law; and

WHEREAS, pursuant to the provisions of Section 6 of the Military Law, the Governor as Commander-in-Chief of the Militia, has the power to order into the active service of the State in case of disaster or imminent danger thereof such units of the organized militia which may be necessary to assist civil authorities in disaster recovery efforts; and

WHEREAS, an explosion in the City of Buffalo, Erie County, has caused widespread destruction in that City; and

WHEREAS, the City of Buffalo requires assistance from the organized militia and the public interest requires such action at the State level to provide assistance in recovery efforts in the aftermath of the explosion;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, Mario M. Cuomo, Governor of the State of New York, pursuant to the authority vested in me by paragraph one of section 6 of the Military Law, have this day, by executive order, ordered Major General Vito J. Castellano, Chief of Staff to the Governor, to order into the active service of the State, for such period, to such extent and in such manner as he may deem necessary, all or any part of the organized militia to meet this emergency.

Signed: Mario M. Cuomo

Dated: December 29, 1983