{"id":"VA-028","kind":"order","level":"state","jurisdiction":"Virginia","state":"VA","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"Governor Ralph S. Northam and State Health Commissioner M. Norman Oliver","authority":"Va. Code §§ 44-146.17, 32.1-13, 32.1-20, 35.1-10","instrument":"Seventh Amended Executive Order 72 and Order of Public Health Emergency Nine","title":"Further Easing of Commonsense Surge Restrictions Due to Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19)","dateIssued":"2021-04-29","effective":"2021-05-15 midnight","end":"Terminated midnight 2021-05-28 by EO 79","startDate":"2021-05-15","endDate":"2021-05-28","quarters":["2021Q2"],"types":["GATH","MASK","CAP","EVT","EMP"],"addressees":["same as EO 72"],"clause":"All public and private in-person gatherings of more than 100 individuals indoors and 250 individuals outdoors... are prohibited.... [Venues:] The total number of spectators indoors cannot exceed the lesser of 50 percent of the lowest occupancy load... [Fitness:] Occupancy must be limited to 75 percent... [§ 18.2-422 waiver] will remain in effect until 11:59 p.m. on June 30, 2021.","enforcement":"As in EO 72","functions":["GATH","PE","SP","FC","DR","MC"],"notes":"The last operative set of general business restrictions before EO 79; supersedes the Sixth Amended EO 72 of Apr. 22, 2021, which had the same May 15 effective date.","sourceUrl":"https://www.governor.virginia.gov/media/governorvirginiagov/executive-actions/EO-72-SEVENTH-AMENDED-and-Order-of-Public-Health-Emergency-Nine-Easing-of-Commonsense-Surge-Restrictions-Due-to-Novel-Coronavirus-(COVID-19).pdf","snapshot":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210501183647/https://www.governor.virginia.gov/media/governorvirginiagov/executive-actions/EO-72-SEVENTH-AMENDED-and-Order-of-Public-Health-Emergency-Nine-Easing-of-Commonsense-Surge-Restrictions-Due-to-Novel-Coronavirus-(COVID-19).pdf","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":385274,"grade":"primary","character":"","description":"","collection":"VA","url":"/library/VA-028","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/VA-028","citation":"Governor Ralph S. Northam and State Health Commissioner M. Norman Oliver, Seventh Amended Executive Order 72 and Order of Public Health Emergency Nine (Apr. 29, 2021) (Ex. VA-028)","stateName":"Virginia","related":["VA-031","VA-017","VA-029","VA-030","VA-034","VA-033","VA-027"]}