The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Delaware
- Level
- State
- Authority
- 20 Del. C. ch. 31 (Delaware Emergency Management Act), §§ 3115, 3116
- Issued
- 2020-03-12 Mar. 12, 2020
- Effective
- 2020-03-13 8:00 a.m. E.D.T. (issued 3:00 p.m. Mar. 12, 2020, as recited in every later Modification) (read as 2020-03-13)
- End
- 2021-07-13 12:01 a.m. E.D.T. (Termination of July 12, 2021, Ex. DE-040); extended every thirty days (Apr. 10, May 8, June 6, July 6, Aug. 5, Sept. 3, Oct. 2, Oct. 30, Nov. 25, Dec. 24, 2020; Jan. 25, Feb. 19, Mar. 19, Apr. 16, May 14, June 13, 2021) (read as 2021-07-13)
- In force
- Mar. 13, 2020 to July 13, 2021
- Quarters
- 2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Emergency declaration
- Addressees
- the public
- all State agencies
- DEMA
- DPH
- Functions reached
- predicate for every Delaware instrument; DEMA/DPH gathering-cancellation power reached MK events and GATH
- Collection
- Delaware DE
Operative words
The saved PDF is a scanned image without a text layer. Recited in the Fourth Modification: 'on March 12, 2020 at 3:00 p.m. E.D.T., I issued a State of Emergency due to the public health threat of COVID-19, which became effective as of 8:00 a.m. E.D.T. on March 13, 2020 (the "COVID-19 State of Emergency")' and 'as of Friday, March 13, 2020 at 8:00 a.m. E.D.T., DPH and Delaware Emergency Management Agency ("DEMA") were authorized to cancel gatherings should it be deemed necessary for public health reasons, and such cancellation shall not constitute a taking' (Ex. DE-005 at 1-2). Recited in the Ninth Modification: 'Paragraph 9 of the COVID-19 State of Emergency dated March 12, 2020' (price gouging) (Ex. DE-012 ¶ 3).
Enforcement
20 Del. C. §§ 3115(b), 3116(9), 3122, 3125 (recited in every Modification as making non-compliance a criminal offense)
Notes
Predicate declaration; the Governor's release of Mar. 12, 2020 is at news.delaware.gov/2020/03/12/governor-carney-declares-state-of-emergency-to-prepare-for-spread-of-coronavirus-covid-19/.
Retrieval noteScanned image (229,773 bytes) from the Delaware Public Archives; dates and times verified from the recitals of the Governor's own later orders (DE-005, DE-006, DE-031). Graded verified_secondary because the declaration's text was not read.