{"id":"DUT-MT-031","kind":"duty","level":"state","jurisdiction":"Montana","state":"MT","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services, Office of Legal Affairs","authority":"Construing the Stay at Home Directive (Ex. MT-009) issued under Mont. Code Ann. 10-3-104 and Title 50, ch. 1","instrument":"DPHHS legal memorandum: Application of March 26, 2020 Directive to craft and hobby stores (cross-reference to Ex. MT-029)","title":"Application of March 26, 2020, Directive to craft and hobby stores","dateIssued":"2020-04-07","effective":"2020-04-07","end":"2020-04-26 (Phase One)","startDate":"2020-04-07","endDate":"2020-04-26","quarters":["2020Q2"],"types":["CLOSE"],"addressees":["specified businesses (craft and hobby stores; by Ex. MT-030, vape and tobacco shops); all non-essential retail"],"clause":"The Directive requires businesses to cease all activities unless the business is an essential business or the business activity meets the definition of Minimum Basic Operations... [and] requires craft and hobby stores to cease brick and mortar retail activity and close to the public.","enforcement":"As for the Stay at Home Directive (50-1-103(2))","functions":[],"notes":"The State\u0027s health department, as the agency whose Title 50 authority the Directive invoked, construed the Directive as a binding command (\u0027requires... to cease\u0027) to a category of retailers, and did the same for vaping and tobacco businesses on April 9, 2020 (Ex. MT-030); the agency\u0027s own reading of its order as mandatory is a governmental statement of the duty.","sourceUrl":"","snapshot":"","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":121838,"grade":"primary","character":"guidance_incorporated","description":"","collection":"DUT-MT","url":"/library/DUT-MT-031","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/DUT-MT-031","citation":"Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services, Office of Legal Affairs, DPHHS legal memorandum: Application of March 26, 2020 Directive to craft and hobby stores (cross-reference to Ex. MT-029) (Apr. 7, 2020) (Ex. DUT-MT-031)","stateName":"Montana","related":["MT-030"]}