The COVID Project
Context, not an orderThis record is guidance or an announcement kept for context. It is not counted among the orders in force.
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Department of the Interior / National Park Service (all 419 park units)
- Level
- Federal
- Authority
- 54 U.S.C. 100751; 16 U.S.C. 6802; 36 C.F.R. 1.5
- Issued
- 2020-03-18 Mar. 18, 2020
- Effective
- 2020-03-18
- End
- Fee collection resumed park by park from June 2020; superintendents' closure authority continued (read as 2020-06-30)
- In force
- Mar. 18, 2020 to June 30, 2020
- Quarters
- 2020 Q2
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Business closureOther
- Addressees
- park superintendents
- park visitors
- concessioners
- Functions reached
- CB park visitors and gateway communities
- CN concessions (fee stations, visitor centers closed)
- TV travel demand
- MK park programs
- Character
- context
- Collection
- Federal lands, science agencies and courts AGY-FED-LANDS-SCIENCE-COURTS
Operative words
'I've directed the National Park Service to waive entrance fees at parks that remain open,' said Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt.... [suspending] collection of all park entrance fees until further notice... [where] facilities will be closed.
Enforcement
36 C.F.R. 1.5 and 1.3 (violation of a superintendent's closure is punishable under 18 U.S.C. 1865: fine and imprisonment up to six months)
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