The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Mississippi
- Level
- State
- Authority
- Miss. Code Ann. §§ 41-3-15(4), 41-23-1, 41-23-5; referenced by Executive Orders 1549 and 1551 ('encouraged to make reasonable, good-faith efforts to comply with the CDC's and Mississippi State Department of Health's regulations and guidelines')
- Issued
- 2021-08-25 Aug. 25, 2021
- Effective
- 2021-08-25 (this state of the page) (read as 2021-08-25)
- End
- revised thereafter (read as 2021-09-30)
- In force
- Aug. 25, 2021 to Sept. 30, 2021
- Quarters
- 2021 Q3
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Face-covering requirementWorkplace rulesOther
- Addressees
- persons generally; employers and businesses; child care facilities, colleges, K-12 schools and long-term care facilities
- Character
- recommendation only
- Collection
- Standing duties: Mississippi DUT-MS
Operative words
Business and Community. MSDH Guidance for Restaurants and Other Workplaces. MSDH also recommends that individuals, organizations, businesses, and facilities in Mississippi follow appropriate CDC guidelines and recommendations for the prevention and control of COVID-19.
Penalty
None of its own; through the shield, loss of immunity; through 29 U.S.C. § 654(a)(1), OSHA citation
What it required
Recommends ('recommends') that businesses follow the MSDH workplace guidance (Ex. DUT-MS-017) and CDC guidelines; in the third quarter of 2021 its legal effect for businesses came from the liability shield's condition (Ex. DUT-MS-010) and the OSH Act general duty clause (Ex. DUT-AL-009), the Governor's business clauses having become recommendations on March 3, 2021 (Exs. MS-051, MS-053).
Retrieval note5 pages. Recorded as a recommendation, as its verb has it. The long-term care paragraph is written in the imperative ('Wear a mask at all times inside these facilities if you are unvaccinated'; 'Do not visit these facilities if you feel ill').