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The record
- Jurisdiction
- Minnehaha County, South Dakota (declared by the State Secretary of Health) · South Dakota
- Level
- State
- Authority
- SDCL 34-22-42 (recited); EO 2020-04 (recited)
- Issued
- 2020-04-10 Apr. 10, 2020
- Effective
- 2020-04-10 ('shall be in effect immediately') (read as 2020-04-10)
- End
- 2020-05-08 by its terms ('until expiration on May 8, 2020, unless sooner terminated or renewed'); renewal not verified (read as 2020-05-08)
- In force
- Apr. 10, 2020 to May 8, 2020
- Quarters
- 2020 Q2
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Emergency declarationQuarantine and isolationStanding duty
- Addressees
- persons generally within Minnehaha County; the Department of Health's directives to individuals there
- Character
- order penalty
- Collection
- Standing duties: South Dakota DUT-SD
Operative words
This state of public health emergency is being declared for the sole purpose of facilitating and enforcing public health orders by the Department of Health against individuals in Minnehaha County, South Dakota in the event such enforcement action(s) become necessary.
Penalty
SDCL 34-22-18: Class 1 misdemeanor for failing to follow the department's directives under a declared public health emergency (Ex. DUT-SD-001); 34-22-18.1 injunction
What it required
The Secretary of Health declared under SDCL 34-22-42 that 'a public health emergency exists within Minnehaha County' because 'the further spread of the disease... poses a significant risk of substantial harm and danger to public health and safety,' for the stated purpose of 'facilitating and enforcing public health orders by the Department of Health against individuals,' which is the trigger for the Class 1 misdemeanor of SDCL 34-22-18 and the injunction of 34-22-18.1 (Ex. DUT-SD-001) in the county that held the State's largest workforce and the Smithfield plant.
Retrieval noteThe order recites that EO 2020-04 declared the State of Emergency, that Minnehaha County 'has 352 cases confirmed by testing,' and that 'multiple Executive Orders have been issued' to support the projections; EO 2020-17 (Ex. SD-014) recites this declaration. Text taken from OCR of the scanned pages; the OCR rendered the signature block as 'OMI Kim Malsam-Rysdon Secretary SD Department of Health.'.