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The record
- Jurisdiction
- Virginia
- Level
- State
- Authority
- Office of the Governor, Forward Virginia Phase Three Guidelines (June 30, 2020), incorporated by reference in Exec. Order 67 (2020)
- Issued
- 2020-06-30 June 30, 2020
- Effective
- 2020-07-01 (with EO 67) (read as 2020-07-01)
- End
- Revised Aug. 21, Oct. 29, Nov. 13 and Dec. 10, 2020 and Feb. 24, Mar. 23, Apr. 20, Apr. 29 and May 15, 2021 (successive versions incorporated in the amended EO 67 and EO 72; not saved); the incorporation ended with EO 72's termination May 28, 2021 (read as 2020-12-10)
- In force
- July 1, 2020 to Dec. 10, 2020
- Quarters
- 2020 Q32020 Q4
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Capacity limitGathering capFace-covering requirementWorkplace rulesOperating condition
- Addressees
- specified businesses (restaurants and beverage services, farmers markets, retail, fitness, personal care, campgrounds, entertainment and amusement, racetracks, social gatherings); employers generally through the all-sector guidelines
- Character
- guidance incorporated
- Collection
- Standing duties: Virginia DUT-VA
Operative words
Establishments must either implement the following mandatory requirements or close. Mandatory Requirements: Businesses must strictly adhere to the physical distancing guidelines, enhanced cleaning and disinfection practices, and enhanced workplace safety practices provided in the 'Guidelines for All Business Sectors' document.
Penalty
Through EO 67/PHE Seven and EO 72/PHE Nine: willful violation a Class 1 misdemeanor under section 32.1-27; injunction; enforcement by VDH, ABC and, under EO 72, DOLI (section 40.1-51.1), DPOR and VDACS (Exs. VA-014, VA-016); the guidelines' own sanction is closure
What it required
The Phase Three version of the same two-register document: all-sector 'Best Practices' in 'should' (ten feet of distance where exercise, singing or cheering is performed and six feet elsewhere; 'Encourage telework whenever possible'; screening 'employers should'), converted in every sector section into 'mandatory requirements or close,' with the sector rules in 'must.' EO 67 and its six amendments (July 1 to Dec. 13, 2020) and EO 72 (from Dec. 14, 2020) made each sector's operation conditional on compliance with the version then current (Exs. VA-014, VA-022 to VA-025, VA-032, VA-016).
Retrieval noteRetrieved as the Wayback Machine's raw capture of June 30, 2020, the day EO 67 was signed. The later versions (Forward-Virginia-Phase-Three-Guidelines---8-21-2020, -October-2020, -November-2020, -December-2020, -2-24-21; 3.23.21-, 4.20.21-, 4.29.21- and 5.15.21-Forward-Virginia-Guidelines) are in the Wayback index and were not saved; each was incorporated by the amended order then in force.