{"id":"MN-005","kind":"order","level":"state","jurisdiction":"Minnesota","state":"MN","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"Governor Tim Walz","authority":"Minn. Stat. secs. 12.21, subd. 3, 12.32, 12.45; approved by the Executive Council Mar. 20, 2020","instrument":"Emergency Executive Order 20-09","title":"Directing Delay of Inpatient and Outpatient Elective Surgery and Procedural Cases during COVID-19 Peacetime Emergency","dateIssued":"2020-03-19","effective":"2020-03-23 5:00 p.m.","end":"2020-05-10 11:59 p.m. (rescinded by EO 20-51 para. 2)","startDate":"2020-03-23","endDate":"2020-05-10","quarters":["2020Q2"],"types":["HC"],"addressees":["hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers, physician and dental practices","veterinary practices (clarified by EO 20-17)"],"clause":"1. Beginning no later than March 23, 2020 at 5:00 pm, and continuing for the duration of the peacetime emergency declared in Executive Order 20-01 or until this Executive Order is rescinded, all non-essential or elective surgeries and procedures, including non-emergent or elective dental care, that utilize PPE or ventilators must be postponed indefinitely. 2. A non-essential surgery or procedure is a surgery or procedure that can be delayed without undue risk to the current or future health of a patient.","enforcement":"Para. 3: willful violation of para. 1 \u0027is guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction must be punished by a fine not to exceed $1,000, or by imprisonment for not more than 90 days\u0027 (sec. 12.45)","functions":["SX surgery and elective procedures","PR elective and aerosol-generating dental procedures","OC outpatient clinics","CB patients","SC PPE"],"notes":"Seven weeks of mandated postponement (Mar. 23 to May 10, 2020) for every Minnesota surgical, procedural and dental practice; EO 20-17 (Mar. 24, 2020, not saved) applied it to veterinary procedures; the Board of Dentistry\u0027s own updates track it (MN-057).","sourceUrl":"https://www.leg.mn.gov/archive/execorders/20-09.pdf","snapshot":"","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":379072,"grade":"primary","character":"","description":"","collection":"MN","url":"/library/MN-005","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/MN-005","citation":"Governor Tim Walz, Emergency Executive Order 20-09 (Mar. 19, 2020) (Ex. MN-005)","stateName":"Minnesota","related":["MN-057","MN-007","MN-006","MN-008","MN-002","MN-004","MN-003","MN-009","MN-001","MN-012","MN-013","MN-014"]}