The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Montana
- Level
- State
- Authority
- Mont. Code Ann. 10-3-104; Title 50, ch. 1; EOs 2-2020 and 3-2020
- Issued
- 2020-04-01 Apr. 1, 2020
- Effective
- 2020-04-01
- End
- 2020-06-01 (Phase Two, Ex. MT-014) (read as 2020-06-01)
- In force
- Apr. 1, 2020 to June 1, 2020
- Quarters
- 2020 Q2
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Capacity limitSchools and child careWorkplace rulesOperating condition
- Addressees
- specified businesses (child-care facilities); employers (whose workforce depended on child care)
- Character
- order operating condition
- Collection
- Standing duties: Montana DUT-MT
Operative words
While this Directive is effective, childcare providers must comply with the following... Childcare must be carried out in stable groups of 10 or fewer children. The same children must be in the same groups each day.... Facilities that cannot comply with the above directive should cease operations for the duration
Penalty
Public health order under Title 50; DPHHS licensing authority over child-care facilities
What it required
Child-care operation was conditional on stable groups of ten, the same children daily, priority for essential workers' children and review of the appended DPHHS information sheet; providers 'must comply'; those unable to comply 'should cease operations'. Recorded exactly: 'must' for the conditions; 'should' for the cessation clause and for limiting total enrollment 'where possible'.