The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Guam (unincorporated territory) - Governor
- Level
- Territorial
- Authority
- "by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Organic Act of Guam, as amended, do hereby order"
- Issued
- 2020-03-20 Mar. 20, 2020
- Effective
- 2020-03-20, 12:00 noon (read as 2020-03-20)
- End
- 2020-03-30 as written; extended by EO 2020-06 (Mar. 24), 2020-09 (Apr. 13) and 2020-11 (Apr. 30) to May 10, 2020 (read as 2020-03-30)
- In force
- Mar. 20, 2020 to Mar. 30, 2020
- Limitation types
- Stay-at-homeBusiness closureTelework mandateGathering capHealth care orders
- Addressees
- all persons (gatherings)
- any place of business or public accommodation
- health care professionals (licensure)
- Government of Guam agencies
- Functions reached
- SF every non-essential place of business closed
- DR dining closed
- GATH all public gatherings prohibited
- CB public isolated
- WF
- OP
- FC, PE, AM venues closed
- HR health-care licensure eased
- Collection
- Territorial governments AGY-TERRITORIES
Operative words
1. PROHIBITION ON GATHERINGS AND MANDATORY SOCIAL ISOLATION. Pursuant to Section 3317, Article 3, Chapter 3 of Title 10, Guam Code Annotated, effective immediately and through March 30, 2020, all public gatherings or congregations for purposes of public entertainment, recreation, food [service and the like are prohibited]... 2. [CLOSURE OF NON-ESSENTIAL BUSINESSES]. Effective at 12 o'clock noon on March 20, 2020 and through March 30, 2020, any place of business or public accommodation shall close and be [prohibited from operating]. This prohibition on operations shall not apply to the following: Healthcare [and the other essential businesses listed]... DPHSS and the DRT shall enforce this Order and, if necessary, [pursue] revocation of their business license or other penalties as available in law or rule.
Enforcement
Department of Public Health and Social Services and Department of Revenue and Taxation; business license revocation; penalties under law
Notes
Guam's lockdown order; the essential-business list excepts health care, grocery, pharmacies, utilities and similar
Retrieval noteLegislature archive copy (Doc. No. 35GL-20-1666); scan read by OCR. in_force_quarters is per instrument (brief, sec.