{"id":"MET-DEN-002","kind":"order","level":"city","jurisdiction":"City and County of Denver, Colorado","state":"CO","metro":"DEN","industry":"","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"Executive Director, DDPHE (Robert M. McDonald)","authority":"D.R.M.C. section 24-16","instrument":"Public Health Order of March 16, 2020 (on-premises food and beverage consumption; bars; liquor; hookah and marijuana consumption areas; mass gatherings of 50 or more)","title":"Public Health Order, March 16, 2020 (\u0027First Public Health Order\u0027 in DDPHE\u0027s index)","dateIssued":"2020-03-16","effective":"2020-03-16","end":"Folded into the Mar. 23, 2020 stay-home order; dine-in service resumed in Denver only under the State\u0027s Safer at Home amendment of May 27, 2020 (State file)","startDate":"2020-03-16","endDate":"2020-03-23","quarters":["2020Q2"],"types":["CLOSE","ALC","GATH"],"addressees":["restaurants and retail food facilities","bars and nightclubs","liquor licensees","marijuana consumption areas and hookah bars","the public"],"clause":"Liquor, beer, and wine sales in the City and County of Denver are restricted to carry-out, drive-through, and delivery only, to the extent permitted by law. No onsite consumption is permitted.... All restaurants and retail food facilities are prohibited from serving food for consumption on premises. Restaurants and retail food facilities may continue to operate for purposes of preparing and offering food to customers via carry-out, drive-through, and delivery only.","enforcement":"D.R.M.C. section 24-16","functions":["DR dining room","BA bar and alcohol service","TO takeout, curbside and delivery (the only permitted channel)","GATH events (50 or more banned per the recital in Ex. 005)","CB customer base"],"notes":"Exempt: cafeterias in medical facilities, grocery stores, pharmacies, food banks, airport concessionaires. The Mar. 23 order recites that this order \u0027banned mass gatherings of 50 persons or more.\u0027 Denver\u0027s copy is a scanned image; the text was read from Denver\u0027s text-layer copy at response-amp-plans/public-health-order_covid-19_03162020.pdf.","sourceUrl":"https://www.denvergov.org/files/assets/public/v/1/public-health-and-environment/documents/2025-covid-phos/2020-03-16-pho.pdf","snapshot":"","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":294931,"grade":"primary","character":"","description":"","collection":"MET-DEN","url":"/library/MET-DEN-002","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/MET-DEN-002","citation":"Executive Director, DDPHE (Robert M. McDonald), Public Health Order of March 16, 2020 (on-premises food and beverage consumption; bars; liquor; hookah and marijuana consumption areas; mass gatherings of 50 or more) (Mar. 16, 2020) (Ex. MET-DEN-002)","stateName":"Colorado","related":["SEC-06-GM-051","MET-DEN-007","MET-DEN-008"]}