The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Monongalia County · West Virginia
- Level
- County
- Authority
- Monongalia Cty. Health Dep't, Health Officer's Order (July 14, 2020) (Ex. WV-082)
- Issued
- 2020-07-14 July 14, 2020
- Effective
- 2020-07-15 12:00 a.m. (read as 2020-07-15)
- End
- In force through the 2020 Monongalia County outbreak; superseded by the State framework's termination Apr. 20, 2021 and S.B. 12 (June 2, 2021; Ex. WV-081) (read as 2021-04-20)
- In force
- July 15, 2020 to Apr. 20, 2021
- Quarters
- 2020 Q32020 Q42021 Q1
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Business closureWorkplace rulesStanding dutyOperating condition
- Addressees
- specified businesses: every business that serves the public in Monongalia County (Morgantown; West Virginia University)
- Character
- sanitary code duty
- Collection
- Standing duties: West Virginia DUT-WV
Operative words
any business that serves the public, that is identified as having three new cases of Covid-19 in staff and/or patrons will be required to close and do a deep clean before our inspection and reopening.... Monongalia County Health Department monitors complaints against businesses including not adequately enforcing the Governor's mask order or other Safe Start requirements.
Penalty
Closure, deep cleaning and quarantine of premises; misdemeanor under W. Va. Code § 16-2-15, fine of $50 to $500 for obstruction (Ex. DUT-WV-005)
What it required
Closure and deep cleaning of any business serving the public on three cases, a fourteen-day quarantine of the premises on a further three, indefinite closure on a third occurrence 'until such a time as deemed safe by the Health Officer,' and inspection on complaints, 'including those made anonymously,' that a business was not enforcing the Governor's mask order or 'other Safe Start requirements.' The verb is 'will be required to close.'
Retrieval noteThe health department's own statement that a business's failure to enforce the Governor's mask order was an enforceable violation of the 'Safe Start requirements': the instrument for category 7 (a health-department statement of the business's duty to comply with health directives) in this State. The Governor's parallel order closed every bar in the county (EO 52-20; Ex. WV-043) and reopened them under 'Supplemental Protocols' (EO 75-20; Ex. WV-050).