The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Mississippi
- Level
- State
- Authority
- Miss. Code Ann. §§ 41-3-15(4), 41-23-1, 41-23-5 (MSDH's public-health guidance function); incorporated by Executive Orders 1477, 1492 and successors ('CDC's and Mississippi State Department of Health's regulations and guidelines')
- Issued
- 2020-07-01 July 1, 2020
- Effective
- 2020-07-01 (this state of the page) (read as 2020-07-01)
- End
- superseded by later revisions (the Aug. 25, 2021 state is Ex. DUT-MS-012) (read as 2021-08-25)
- In force
- July 1, 2020 to Aug. 25, 2021
- Quarters
- 2020 Q3
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Gathering capFace-covering requirementWorkplace rulesOther
- Addressees
- persons generally; employers and businesses (as the addressees of the incorporated guidance)
- Character
- guidance incorporated
- Collection
- Standing duties: Mississippi DUT-MS
Operative words
Wear a mask or face covering away from home. Some business employees in contact with customers are required to wear a face covering.... All Mississippi residents should wear non-medical grade masks or homemade cloth face coverings when shopping, running errands, or otherwise away from home.... Follow restrictions on indoor and outdoor gathering sizes.
Penalty
None of its own; through the incorporating orders, Miss. Code Ann. § 33-15-43; through the shield, loss of immunity
What it required
As guidance, the page recommends ('should') masks, distancing and avoidance of gatherings; it records as mandatory the employee face-covering requirements of the orders ('are required') and the gathering-size restrictions; its recommendations became compulsory for businesses through the orders' good-faith-compliance clause (Exs. MS-014, MS-022, MS-039) and the liability shield's condition (Ex. DUT-MS-010).
Retrieval note8 pages. Recorded as a recommendation, as its text has it; the mandatory character of the employee face-covering requirement it reports comes from Executive Orders 1478 and 1480 (Exs. MS-015, MS-016) and the county orders (Ex. MS-026).