The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- City of Salem, Massachusetts · Boston · Massachusetts
- Level
- City
- Authority
- 310 CMR 11.05; 105 CMR 300.200; G.L. c. 111, ss. 30, 104; Salem Public Health Emergency of March 20, 2020
- Issued
- 2020-10-02 Oct. 2, 2020
- Effective
- 2020-10-02
- End
- 'At least November 5, 2020' (read as 2020-11-05)
- In force
- Oct. 2, 2020 to Nov. 5, 2020
- Quarters
- 2020 Q4
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Business closureCapacity limitTravel and quarantineEvents and venues
- Addressees
- all Phase III Step 2 businesses in Salem
- performers on the Essex Street pedestrian mall
- restaurants and bars
- hotels, motels, bed and breakfasts and short-term rental operators and their guests from high-risk States
- Functions reached
- PE indoor performance venues, arcades, recreation stayed closed
- DR party size six
- LG lodging operators (traveler form)
- PE street performers barred
- CB Halloween-season visitors
- Collection
- Boston MET-BOS
Operative words
1. The City of Salem shall remain in Step 1 of Phase III of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts phased reopening plan and the implementation of Step 2 of Phase III of the reopening plan shall be delayed until at least November 5, 2020. 2. Performers, including but not limited to musicians, balloon and face-painting artists and costumed actors, and public orators... shall not be allowed on the Essex Street pedestrian mall and designated side streets... 3. That notwithstanding the September 22, 2020 Guidance, the size of a party seated at a restaurant table or bar in the City of Salem cannot exceed six people.... 4. The City of Salem will issue a local travel order that requires the following, a) All hotels/motels, bed and breakfast and short term rental operators in the city of Salem will notify their guests of this order... b) All visitors to the City of Salem staying in a hotel, motel, bed and breakfast or a short term rental from high risk states as designated by the Governor shall complete a local travel form... Violations of this Order may be punishable by monetary municipal fines up to $300.00
Enforcement
Municipal fines up to $300; Board of Health and Salem Police
Notes
Salem's October regime for its largest tourist month.
Retrieval noteFull order text reproduced on the City page (PDF emergency_order_-_october_2020_-_final.pdf linked, not saved).