{"id":"AGY-ST-CORRECTIONS-EMA-GUARD-096","kind":"order","level":"state","jurisdiction":"Michigan (Governor); State level","state":"MI","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"ST-CORRECTIONS-EMA-GUARD","eco":"","issuer":"Governor Gretchen Whitmer","authority":"MCL 30.403; MCL 10.31","instrument":"Executive Order 2020-18 (COVID-19)","title":"Enhanced restrictions on price gouging: no resale of a product at a price grossly in excess of its purchase price; no sale of any product at a price more than 20 percent above its Mar. 9, 2020 price absent proof of increased cost; \u0027product\u0027 includes any emergency supply","dateIssued":"2020-03-20","effective":"2020-03-20 (immediately)","end":"2020-04-17 at 11:59 p.m., continued by EO 2020-33 (Apr. 3, 2020), EO 2020-53 (Apr. 13, 2020; Ex. 097) and successors through Oct. 2, 2020 (In re Certified Questions); MDHHS and the Attorney General thereafter","startDate":"2020-03-20","endDate":"2020-04-17","quarters":["2020Q2"],"types":["SUPPLY","OTHER"],"addressees":["every person (individual, business or other legal entity) selling or reselling products in Michigan"],"clause":"1. Effective immediately and continuing until April 17, 2020 at 11:59 pm, if a person has acquired any product from a retailer, the person must not resell that product in this state at a price that is grossly in excess of the purchase price at which the person acquired the product. 2. Effective immediately and continuing until April 17, 2020 at 11:59 pm, a person must not offer for sale or sell any product in this state at a price that is more than 20% higher than what the person offered or charged for that product as of March 9, 2020, unless the person demonstrates that the price increase is attributable to an increase in the cost of bringing the product to market or to an extraordinary discount in effect as of March 9, 2020. 3. For purposes of this order: a. \u0027Person\u0027 means an individual, business, or other legal entity. b. \u0027Product\u0027 means any good, material, or consumer food item with a fair market value of less than $1,000.00, or any emergency supply.","enforcement":"\u0027Consistent with MCL 10.33 and MCL 30.405(3), a willful violation of this order is a misdemeanor\u0027; Attorney General enforcement under the Consumer Protection Act preserved","functions":["SF pricing of PPE, sanitizer and every consumer product under $1,000","SC distributors\u0027 and resellers\u0027 margins","CB"],"notes":"Michigan\u0027s State-level PPE price control; reached every retailer, wholesaler and reseller in the State.","sourceUrl":"http://www.legislature.mi.gov/documents/2019-2020/executiveorder/pdf/2020-EO-18.pdf","snapshot":"http://web.archive.org/web/20200401/http://www.legislature.mi.gov/documents/2019-2020/executiveorder/pdf/2020-EO-18.pdf","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":140071,"grade":"primary","character":"","description":"","collection":"AGY-ST-CORRECTIONS-EMA-GUARD","url":"/library/AGY-ST-CORRECTIONS-EMA-GUARD-096","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/AGY-ST-CORRECTIONS-EMA-GUARD-096","citation":"Governor Gretchen Whitmer, Executive Order 2020-18 (COVID-19) (Mar. 20, 2020) (Ex. AGY-ST-CORRECTIONS-EMA-GUARD-096)","stateName":"Michigan","related":["AGY-ST-CORRECTIONS-EMA-GUARD-006","AGY-ST-CORRECTIONS-EMA-GUARD-097"]}