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The record
- Jurisdiction
- Arkansas
- Level
- State
- Authority
- Department of Health directive on Resuming Bar and Club Operations (Ex. AR-052) and the Department's authority under Ark. Code Ann. 20-7-101 et seq. (as described in the report)
- Issued
- 2020-07-06 July 6, 2020
- Effective
- 2020-07-04 (closure until a hearing with the Department of Health; reopening permitted July 20, 2020 per later reports) (read as 2020-07-04)
- End
- 2020-07-20 (approximate; reopening under new conditions) (read as 2020-07-20)
- In force
- July 4, 2020 to July 20, 2020
- Quarters
- 2020 Q3
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Business closureCapacity limitFace-covering requirementOperating condition
- Addressees
- specified business (a permitted bar and restaurant); by the Governor's statement, every business subject to the directives
- Character
- order operating condition
- Collection
- Standing duties: Arkansas DUT-AR
Operative words
The state Department of Health ordered Brewski's Pub & Grub to close Saturday as an imminent threat to public health.... "We expect compliance with our public health guidelines," Gov. Asa Hutchinson said at a news conference Monday. "If you're not complying with those, if they are not willing to enforce it, then they cannot stay in operation."
Penalty
Closure order pending a Department of Health hearing
What it required
Shows the Department closing a permitted bar for operating above 66 percent capacity, without distanced seating and without ensuring patron face coverings 'as is required' by the directive, the closure to hold until a hearing, and the Governor stating that compliance with the public health directives was the condition of remaining in operation.
Retrieval noteThe report describes its findings ('not limiting guest capacity to 66 percent or arranging seats to ensure social distancing, as is required'; 'not ensuring that customers wore protective masks'). Contemporaneous reports (Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, July 6, 2020; KARK) describe the same order; KARK reported it as a cease-and-desist order issued after an Alcoholic Beverage Control inspection on July 3, 2020 found violations of the Directive on Resuming Bar and Club Operations. Cite as verified_secondary only.