The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Arlington County, Virginia · Washington suburbs · Maryland
- Level
- County
- Authority
- Va. Code § 15.2-1413 (continuity of government emergency ordinances) and the local emergency
- Issued
- 2020-08-26 Aug. 26, 2020
- Effective
- 2020-08-28 (enforcement); ordinance adopted earlier in summer 2020 (date not verified) (read as 2020-08-28)
- In force
- Aug. 28, 2020 to Sept. 22, 2020
- Quarters
- 2020 Q3
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Gathering capOther
- Addressees
- pedestrians and patrons on posted streets and sidewalks in Clarendon and other commercial districts
- restaurants' waiting customers
- Functions reached
- DR restaurant queues and nightlife
- GATH
- CB patrons
- Collection
- Washington suburbs MET-DCM
Operative words
the County Board adopted an emergency ordinance prohibiting groups of more than three people from congregating and requiring pedestrians to maintain at least six feet of physical separation from others on posted streets and sidewalks. Following several weeks of public education, the County has installed physical distancing ordinance signage and will begin Phase I enforcement on Friday, August 28.
Enforcement
Civil enforcement by county officers at posted locations
Notes
The only Northern Virginia local ordinance of the period that regulated the public's conduct directly; aimed at restaurant and bar queues in Clarendon.