The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Connecticut
- Level
- State
- Authority
- OLR research report to the General Assembly; describes DECD's Sector Rules and self-certification requirement under EO 7PP
- Issued
- 2020-12-23 Dec. 23, 2020
- Effective
- describes the requirement in force from May 20, 2020 (Phase 1) through Phase 2.1 (Nov. 6, 2020) and continuing (read as 2020-05-20)
- End
- self-certification requirement ended with the repeal of the Sector Rules, 11:59 p.m. May 20, 2021 (EO 12B § 1, Ex. CT-046) (read as 2021-05-20)
- In force
- May 20, 2020 to May 20, 2021
- Quarters
- 2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q2
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Capacity limitWorkplace rulesOperating condition
- Addressees
- specified businesses (every business type permitted to reopen under the DECD Sector Rules, Exs. CT-078, CT-069 to CT-101)
- Character
- order operating condition
- Collection
- Standing duties: Connecticut DUT-CT
Operative words
Throughout all phases of the reopening, DECD has required businesses to self-certify they are following specified safety guidelines before reopening. DECD provides an up-to-date searchable list of self-certified businesses. Businesses are only required to self-certify once
Penalty
The certification was the condition of lawful opening; operating in violation of the Sector Rules was a public nuisance enforceable by closure (EO 7PP § 2, Ex. CT-018) and, from Nov. 24, 2020, a $10,000 civil penalty per violation (EO 9N, Ex. CT-033; EO 11A, Ex. CT-041)
What it required
Records, as the General Assembly's own research office found, that every business reopening under the Sector Rules was required to certify to the State that it was following the specified safety rules before it opened, and that 19,566 businesses had done so by June 26, 2020 and more than 22,000 by December 11, 2020, restaurants (23.7 percent), offices (21.9 percent), retail and malls (17.2 percent) and hair salons and barbershops (14 percent) leading.
Retrieval noteThe report's own text is verified_primary; as to the DECD requirement it corroborates DECD's own page (Ex. DUT-CT-016: 'All businesses subject to the following rules are required to self-certify prior to opening') and the Sector Rules themselves (Ex. CT-069: 'Complete the self-certification on the DECD website to receive a Reopen CT badge'). The file-name date (2020-12-01) is approximate; the report is dated December 23, 2020.