The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Town and County of Nantucket, Massachusetts · Boston · Massachusetts
- Level
- City
- Authority
- G.L. c. 111; local emergency powers; construction and street-opening permit authority
- Issued
- 2020-03-30 Mar. 30, 2020
- Effective
- 2020-03-30 (Emergency Order No. 1 effective Mar. 20, 2020; No. 3 Mar. 22, 2020) (read as 2020-03-30)
- End
- Construction and landscaping resumed under Emergency Order No. 6 (Back-to-Work Program for Landscaping, Phase I) and later orders in May 2020 (dates not verified) (read as 2020-06-30)
- In force
- Mar. 30, 2020 to June 30, 2020
- Quarters
- 2020 Q2
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Stay-at-homeBusiness closureTravel and quarantine
- Addressees
- all construction and commercial landscaping work on Nantucket
- all residents
- Functions reached
- JS construction sites suspended
- LS commercial landscaping suspended
- TV worker travel by ferry
- CB residents at home
- Collection
- Boston MET-BOS
Operative words
WHEREAS, effective Friday, March 20, 2020 the Town of Nantucket issued an Emergency Order temporarily suspending all regular activity at construction sites on Nantucket, including but not limited-to all work authorized by building permits and street opening permits (Emergency Order No. 1). WHEREAS, the Town of Nantucket issued an Emergency Stay-at-Home Order on March 22, 2020... (Emergency Order No. 3).... WHEREAS, on March 29, 2020, officials from the Town of Nantucket participated in a telephone conference with the Governor's Legal Counsel, Legislative Director and Chief Secretary, who affirmed that local governments retain the authority to enact regulations that are more stringent than the Governor's orders, to regulate activities within their jurisdictions based on their individual circumstances. WHEREAS, we wish to re-affirm... that all non-emergency construction work and all commercial landscaping work is prohibited until the expiration of the applicable orders or they are sooner rescinded.
Enforcement
Permit suspension; Board of Health authority
Notes
The key preemption exhibit: records the Governor's counsel's affirmation of local authority to be stricter than the State (Mar. 24 and Mar. 29, 2020).