{"id":"SEC-02-022","kind":"order","level":"state","jurisdiction":"Minnesota","state":"MN","metro":"","industry":"02","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"Governor Tim Walz (approved by the Executive Council)","authority":"Minn. Stat. ch. 12, secs. 12.21, 12.31, 12.32, 12.45","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Procedural Cases during COVID-19 Peacetime Emergency","dateIssued":"2020-03-19","effective":"2020-03-23 17:00","end":"rescinded by EO 20-51 as of May 10, 2020 at 11:59 p.m.","startDate":"2020-03-23","endDate":"2020-05-10","quarters":["2020Q2"],"types":["HC","SUPPLY"],"addressees":["all providers of inpatient and outpatient surgeries and procedures, including dental"],"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for the duration of the peacetime emergency declared in Executive Order 20-01 or until this Executive Order is rescinded, all non-essential or elective surgeries and procedures, including non-emergent or elective dental care, that utilize PPE or ventilators must be postponed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... a person who willfully violates paragraph 1 of this Executive Order is 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","enforcement":"Minn. Stat. 12.45 misdemeanor","functions":["PR","DX","SC","CL","CB"],"notes":"Applies to outpatient procedural cases in offices and clinics.","sourceUrl":"https://www.lrl.mn.gov/archive/execorders/20-09.pdf","snapshot":"","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":379072,"grade":"primary","character":"","description":"","collection":"SEC-02","url":"/library/SEC-02-022","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/SEC-02-022","citation":"Governor Tim Walz (approved by the Executive Council), Emergency Executive Order 20-09 (Mar. 19, 2020) (Ex. SEC-02-022)","stateName":"Minnesota","related":[]}