The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Alabama
- Level
- State
- Authority
- Code of Alabama 1975, § 31-9-22 (Acts 1955, No. 47, p. 267, § 22)
- Effective
- standing
- End
- standing (read as 2021-09-30)
- In force
- Standing (a statutory duty; in force throughout the six quarters)
- Quarters
- 2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Emergency declarationStanding duty
- Addressees
- persons generally (every natural and juridical person, including employers and operators of premises)
- Character
- order penalty
- Collection
- Standing duties: Alabama DUT-AL
Operative words
Any person violating any provision of this article or any rule, order, or regulation made pursuant to this article shall, upon conviction thereof, be fined not more than $500, and may also be imprisoned in the county jail or sentenced to hard labor for the county for not more than six months.
Penalty
fine of not more than $500; imprisonment in the county jail or hard labor for the county for not more than six months
What it required
Obedience to every order promulgated under the Emergency Management Act, on pain of a fine of up to $500 and up to six months in the county jail or at hard labor; the Governor's proclamations from July 15, 2020 recite this section as the penalty for violating the Safer at Home, mask and Safer Apart orders (Ex. AL-026 § I and each later proclamation).
Retrieval noteonecle mirror (page last modified May 3, 2021); the section's terms are recited in the Governor's proclamations (Ex. AL-026: 'a fine of not more than $500 or imprisonment in the county jail as set forth in the Act, see, e.g., id. § 31-9-22') and in Munza v. Ivey (Ex. DUT-AL-020, at 5) and Case v. Ivey (Ex. DUT-AL-021, at 11). The section does not use the word 'misdemeanor'; the offense is defined by its punishment.