The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Miami-Dade County, Florida · Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach · Florida
- Level
- County
- Authority
- s. 252.38(3)(a) and s. 252.46, Fla. Stat.; Fla. EO 20-52 and 20-244 (recited); Code of Miami-Dade County ss. 8B-7(2)(e), (f), (o)
- Issued
- 2020-09-26 Sept. 26, 2020
- Effective
- 2020-09-26 (immediately) (read as 2020-09-26)
- End
- Amended Oct. 16, 2020 (Amendment No. 1: restaurants and other businesses subject to the curfew; inspection-consent and compliance-plan requirements deleted); cancelled by Emergency Order 33-20 (Apr. 6, 2021) (read as 2020-10-16)
- In force
- Sept. 26, 2020 to Oct. 16, 2020
- Quarters
- 2020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q2
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Capacity limitFace-covering requirementCurfew and hoursWorkplace rulesQuarantine and isolationOther
- Addressees
- every retail and commercial establishment and any other establishment or facility in Miami-Dade County
- restaurants and food service establishments
- short-term vacation rentals
- hotels (hurricane exception)
- Functions reached
- DR dining room (distancing and table caps as the price of exceeding 50 percent; curfew closure)
- SF sales floor (Handbook conditions)
- HR training
- WF workforce (positive-employee closure; 14-day exclusion)
- LG short-term rentals capped at ten
- OF administration (signage, reporting, attestations)
- CB customer base (masks)
- Collection
- Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach MET-MIA
Operative words
2. Emergency Orders 1-20, 16-20, and 28-20, as amended, are cancelled. 3. a. Every retail and commercial establishment and any other establishment or facility... is permitted to open, and remain open, provided that each such establishment complies with the following requirements at all times: i. the requirements in paragraph 4 below; ii. the applicable activity-specific requirements in the "Moving To A New Normal Handbook"...; iii. the facial covering requirements in Emergency Order 20-20, as amended; and iv. the entry of County or municipal personnel... for... inspection... b. In the event that an establishment is not in compliance..., the establishment shall immediately close until it has addressed its compliance issue(s).... d. Restaurants and other food service establishments with seating for more than eight people shall close for on-premises dining between the start of the curfew as determined in Emergency Order 27-20 and 6:00 am the next morning.... e. Notwithstanding and controlling over anything in the Guidebook to the contrary, restaurants and other food service establishments shall be permitted to have a minimum occupancy of 50 percent, and shall otherwise comply with social distancing requirements to the maximum extent possible. A restaurant or other food service establishment shall be allowed to operate at up to 100 percent capacity if the restaurant: (1) ensures six feet of distance between tables; (2) ensures that no more than six persons (or ten persons if in the same household) sit at a table; and (3) ensure that persons not actively eating or drinking are wearing facial coverings.... 6. Any establishment that has an on-site employee or contractor who tests positive shall close until...
Enforcement
Immediate closure until compliance; attestation to [email protected]; compliance plan and written approval for repeat violations (deleted Oct. 16, 2020); Code of Miami-Dade County ch. 8B; s. 252.46, Fla. Stat.
Notes
Recitals quantify restaurant sales losses (15, 48, 65 and 54 percent in Mar.-June 2020 v. Jan. 2020) to satisfy EO 20-244 s. 3.A; s. 5(c): any Guidebook provision that would prevent an establishment operating is inapplicable
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