The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Missouri
- Level
- State
- Authority
- Legislative enactment; Mo. Const. art. IV (executive department); police power of the State
- Issued
- 2016-08-28 Aug. 28, 2016
- Effective
- standing (read as 2016-08-28)
- End
- standing (read as 2021-09-30)
- In force
- Standing since Aug. 28, 2016 (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
- Business closureGathering capWorkplace rulesQuarantine and isolationStanding duty
- Addressees
- the Department (a duty to act); persons generally and every business in the State (the addressees of the orders and rules made under it)
- Character
- statutory duty
- Collection
- Standing duties: Missouri DUT-MO
Operative words
It shall be the general duty and responsibility of the department of health and senior services to safeguard the health of the people in the state and all its subdivisions.... [It] shall make and enforce adequate orders, findings, rules and regulations to prevent the spread of such diseases and to determine the prevalence of such diseases within the state.
Penalty
Violation of any provision of sections 192.020 to 192.490 or of a quarantine is a class A misdemeanor, RSMo 192.320 (Ex. DUT-MO-004): imprisonment up to one year (RSMo 558.011.1(6), Ex. DUT-MO-016) and a fine up to $2,000 (RSMo 558.002.1(2), Ex. DUT-MO-017)
What it required
The Department of Health and Senior Services must designate communicable diseases and must make and enforce orders, findings, rules and regulations to prevent their spread; the Stay Home Missouri Order and both Phase 1 orders recite this section as their authority (Exs. MO-004, MO-006, MO-007).
Retrieval noteRendered from the Missouri Revisor of Statutes on Sept. 28, 2026 (500,417 bytes). The page shows the current version (effective Aug. 28, 2026, adding alpha-gal reporting in subsections 2-3); The DHSS orders of Apr. 3, Apr. 27 and May 28, 2020 each open: 'pursuant to the authority granted under section 192.020, RSMo, and 19 CSR 20-20.040, hereby order the following' (Exs. MO-004, MO-006, MO-007).