{"id":"SEC-26-009","kind":"order","level":"state","jurisdiction":"Michigan","state":"MI","metro":"","industry":"26","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"Governor Gretchen Whitmer","authority":"Mich. Const. 1963 art. 5 § 1; Emergency Management Act, MCL 30.403(1)-(2); Emergency Powers of the Governor Act of 1945, MCL 10.31(1)","instrument":"Executive Order No. 2020-34","title":"Temporary restrictions on veterinary services; Rescission of Executive Order 2020-32","dateIssued":"2020-04-02","effective":"2020-04-02 5:00 p.m. (\u0027Beginning as soon as possible but no later than April 2, 2020 at 5:00 pm\u0027)","end":"2020-05-28 11:59 p.m. (rescinded by EO 2020-96 ¶ 19, Ex. MI-030)","startDate":"2020-04-02","endDate":"2020-05-28","quarters":["2020Q2"],"types":["HC","SUPPLY","TELE"],"addressees":["all veterinary facilities","veterinarians","Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs"],"clause":"1. Beginning as soon as possible but no later than April 2, 2020 at 5:00 pm, and continuing while the declared emergency is in effect, all veterinary facilities must implement a plan to temporarily postpone all in-person non-essential veterinary services until the declared emergency has ended (\u0027plan\u0027). 2. A plan must provide that all veterinary services, essential and non-essential, must be performed by telemedicine to the fullest extent possible while the declared emergency is in effect. If a non-essential service cannot be performed by telemedicine, a plan must require that it be postponed.... 3. A plan must require that, in performing veterinary services, the use of personal protective equipment that could be used for the care of humans must be minimized to the fullest extent possible... 4. A veterinary facility must comply with the restrictions contained in its plan. 5. For purposes of this order, \u0027non-essential veterinary services\u0027 means all non-agricultural veterinary services other than those that are: (1) necessary to preserve the life of an animal...; (2) necessary to treat serious pain...; (3) necessary to euthanize an animal...; or (4) necessary to treat or prevent the transmission of any infectious disease that can be transmitted between animals and human beings... 9. Consistent with MCL 10.33 and MCL 30.405(3), a willful violation of this order is a misdemeanor.","enforcement":"MCL 10.33 and 30.405(3): willful violation a misdemeanor; LARA director to issue enforcement orders (¶ 8)","functions":["CL clinical and surgical services postponed","EM emergency care only (life, serious pain, euthanasia, zoonotic disease)","SC PPE minimization","OP telemedicine compelled \u0027to the fullest extent possible\u0027","CB clients (in-person visits barred except essential)"],"notes":"The only dedicated gubernatorial veterinary order located in the fifty States: a stand-alone force-of-law instrument, with a criminal sanction, that suspended every non-essential in-person veterinary service in Michigan for eight weeks and compelled telemedicine. EO 2020-32 (recited) imposed the first version days earlier. Michigan\u0027s stay-home orders cross-referenced the \u0027veterinary services postponement plan\u0027 (Exs. MI-020, MI-024, MI-026) and EO 2020-96 recited that EO 2020-17 and 2020-34 \u0027required health-care and veterinary facilities to implement plans to postpone some medical and dental procedures\u0027 (Ex. MI-030). Not in the Michigan State file; saved here.","sourceUrl":"https://www.legislature.mi.gov/documents/2019-2020/executiveorder/pdf/2020-EO-34.pdf","snapshot":"","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":163231,"grade":"primary","character":"","description":"","collection":"SEC-26","url":"/library/SEC-26-009","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/SEC-26-009","citation":"Governor Gretchen Whitmer, Executive Order No. 2020-34 (Apr. 2, 2020) (Ex. SEC-26-009)","stateName":"Michigan","related":["MI-030","MI-020","MI-024","MI-026"]}