The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- United States
- Level
- Federal
- Authority
- presidential guidance (no independent legal force)
- Issued
- 2020-03-16 Mar. 16, 2020
- Effective
- 2020-03-16 through 2020-04-30 (as extended Mar. 29, 2020) (read as 2020-03-16)
- End
- 2020-04-30 (replaced by the Guidelines for Opening Up America Again, Ex. FED-397) (read as 2020-04-30)
- In force
- Mar. 16, 2020 to Apr. 30, 2020
- Quarters
- 2020 Q2
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Other
- Addressees
- all Americans
- governors of States with community transmission
- Functions reached
- Collection
- Federal commerce, travel, workplace and finance layer FED-B
Operative words
[Work or engage in schooling from home whenever possible.... Avoid social gatherings in groups of more than 10 people.... Avoid discretionary travel, shopping trips, and social visits.... In States with evidence of community transmission, bars, restaurants, food courts, gyms, and other indoor and outdoor venues where groups of people congregate should be closed.]
Enforcement
none (guidance); the federal template that OMB M-20-16 implemented for the federal workforce and that the State orders of March 2020 adopted with force of law
Notes
Guidance, not an order; pleaded as the federal template of the State orders and as the premise of M-20-16 ('to Slow the Spread of Coronavirus').
Retrieval noteThe exhibit is an image PDF.