The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Jackson County, Missouri · Kansas City · Missouri
- Level
- County
- Authority
- Constitutional Home Rule Charter of Jackson County
- Issued
- 2020-03-17 Mar. 17, 2020
- Effective
- 2020-03-17 12:01 a.m. (read as 2020-03-17)
- End
- 2020-03-24 (subsumed in the Stay at Home Order, Ex. MET-KC-027); emergency continued (read as 2020-06-30)
- In force
- Mar. 17, 2020 to June 30, 2020
- Quarters
- 2020 Q2
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Emergency declarationBusiness closureGathering capSchools and child careEvents and venues
- Addressees
- restaurants and taverns
- professional, social, cultural and entertainment event organizers
- all public, chartered, private and parochial elementary and secondary schools
- Functions reached
- DR dining rooms (gatherings of 10 or more at restaurants and taverns)
- BA
- GATH
- EVT
- IN in-person instruction (all schools)
- WF workforce (school closures)
- CB
- Collection
- Kansas City MET-KC
Operative words
the term 'Group Event' means any gathering of 10 or more people at any restaurant, tavern, professional, social, cultural, entertainment, or other special event where people are not separated by physical space of at least six feet.... 'School Operations' means any institution of elementary or secondary education, including but not limited to public, chartered, private, or parochial institutions.... all Group Events and School Operations are prohibited from taking place in Jackson County, Missouri, during the duration stated within this Order, unless Group Event organizers or School Operations leadership can demonstrate to the satisfaction of the Jackson County Director of Health that sufficient mitigation plans for infectious diseases are in place. (§§ 1-4)
Enforcement
Home Rule Charter emergency powers; County Director of Health approval of mitigation plans (§ 5)
Notes
Provisions 'made in consultation with those enacted by the City of Kansas City, Missouri, and the Core 4 jurisdictions in Kansas and Missouri'; the metro's first closure-grade instrument
Retrieval noteBoth pages read from rendered images; signed Mar. 17, 2020, filed Mar. 18, 2020.