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Ex. MET-ATL-001 Order Primary source read

Executive Order 2020-21

Declaring an emergency; directing all individuals living in the City of Atlanta to stay at their place of residence; ceasing non-essential business operations at physical locations; prohibiting all non-essential gatherings of any number (Stay at Home Order)

Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms · City of Atlanta, Georgia (City)

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Jurisdiction
City of Atlanta, Georgia · Atlanta · Georgia
Level
City
Authority
City of Atlanta Code §§ 2-181(a), 2-181(b), 2-182
Issued
2020-03-23 Mar. 23, 2020
Effective
2020-03-24 12:00 a.m. (filed with the Municipal Clerk Mar. 23, 2020 8:49 p.m.) (read as 2020-03-24)
End
2020-04-07 (14 days); re-declared by EO 2020-22 (Mar. 26, 2020); local stay-home orders suspended by Kemp EO 04.02.20.01 effective Apr. 3, 2020 6:00 p.m. and superseded by the statewide shelter-in-place (Apr. 3-30, 2020) (read as 2020-04-07)
In force
Mar. 24, 2020 to Apr. 7, 2020
Quarters
2020 Q2
Limitation types
Stay-at-homeBusiness closureTelework mandateGathering capTravel and quarantine
Addressees
  • all individuals in the City
  • all businesses with facilities in the City
  • the homeless (exempt)
Functions reached
  • CB customer base under stay-home
  • SF sales floor and premises closed to the public
  • OF offices (non-essential operations at physical locations ceased)
  • GATH events of any number
  • WF workforce confined to residence
Collection
Atlanta MET-ATL

Operative words

all individuals living in the territorial jurisdictional limits of the City of Atlanta are directed to shelter at their place of residence; and persons subject to this order to leave their places of residence to provide or receive certain essential services or engage in certain essential activities and work for essential business and government services;... all businesses must cease non-essential operations at physical locations within the City of Atlanta; all non-essential gatherings of any number of individuals are prohibited (as recited in EO 2020-22 describing the March 24 order)

Enforcement

Code § 2-181(b) emergency powers; APD enforcement

Notes

Paradigm stay-home order for the State's largest city; clinicians' March 22, 2020 opinion recommending 14 days is recited. Husch Blackwell tracker: 'stay at home until April 7.'

Retrieval note

Scanned 8-page signed order; page 1 identified by image; operative terms quoted from EO 2020-22's recital of this order (Ex. MET-ATL-054, pp. 2-3 read) and the Husch Blackwell tracker. that release page is no longer archived in renderable form.

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