The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Arizona
- Level
- State
- Authority
- n/a (commentary on A.R.S. §§ 26-316, 26-317, 36-140, 13-2908, 13-2917 and EO 2020-09, 2020-10, 2020-18)
- Issued
- 2020-03-26 Mar. 26, 2020
- Effective
- n/a (commentary) (read as 2020-03-26)
- End
- n/a (read as 2020-06-30)
- In force
- Mar. 26, 2020 to June 30, 2020
- Quarters
- 2020 Q2
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Stay-at-homeBusiness closureStanding duty
- Addressees
- persons and businesses in Arizona (audience of the alert)
- Character
- order penalty
- Collection
- Standing duties: Arizona DUT-AZ
Operative words
People or businesses who violate these orders could get in criminal trouble. A.R.S. § 26-317 provides that a violation of an order, rule, or regulation issued pursuant to the State of Emergency is a Class 1 misdemeanor. This crime carries up to six months in jail and fines that, for a business, go as high as $20,000.
Penalty
as stated in the alert: class 1 misdemeanor (A.R.S. § 26-317); class 3 misdemeanor (A.R.S. §§ 36-140, 13-2908); class 2 misdemeanor and injunction (A.R.S. § 13-2917)
What it required
Advised Arizona businesses at the outset of the emergency that violation of the executive orders was a class 1 misdemeanor under A.R.S. § 26-317, that violation of ADHS regulations was a class 3 misdemeanor under A.R.S. § 36-140, and that criminal nuisance (A.R.S. § 13-2908) and public nuisance (A.R.S. § 13-2917) were additional enforcement routes for which the executive order 'would be strong evidence against a defendant.'
Retrieval noteGrade verified_primary as to what the alert says (the exhibit is the alert); verified_secondary as to the penalty amounts, which the statutes cited do not state and which derive from A.R.S. §§ 13-707 and 13-803 (not saved). Contemporaneous evidence of what Arizona counsel told employers their legal exposure was in the first week of the stay-home order. File-name date '2020-04' reflects the March 26-31, 2020 issuance window.