The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Parish of Jefferson, Louisiana · New Orleans and Baton Rouge · Louisiana
- Level
- County
- Authority
- La. R.S. 29:721 et seq.; La. R.S. 29:727(D) and (F)
- Issued
- 2020-03-12 Mar. 12, 2020
- Effective
- 2020-03-12 3:26 p.m. (read as 2020-03-12)
- End
- Continuing; every Jefferson Parish COVID proclamation through 13 CLS 2021 (Aug. 3, 2021) recites it as the operative emergency, and 11 CLS 2021 provides the emergency continues 'until the Parish President finds the threat of danger has been dealt with' (read as 2021-08-03)
- In force
- Mar. 12, 2020 to Aug. 3, 2021
- Quarters
- 2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Emergency declaration
- Addressees
- Parish of Jefferson government and the public
- Functions reached
- EMER predicate for the Jefferson Parish series 02-22 CLS 2020 and 1-13 CLS 2021
- Collection
- New Orleans and Baton Rouge MET-MSY
Operative words
SECTION 1: Pursuant to the Louisiana Homeland Security and Emergency Assistance and Disaster Act, La. R.S. 29:721 et seq., a state of emergency is hereby declared to exist within and throughout the Parish of Jefferson as a result of the novel coronavirus named SARS-CoV-2 and the respiratory disease caused by it known as Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), which have created emergency conditions that threaten the lives and property of the citizens of this Parish.
Enforcement
La. R.S. 29:727(G) (recited in 10 CLS 2020, Ex. 054)
Notes
Recites one Jefferson Parish resident among Louisiana's fourteen presumptive cases; Jefferson is the State's second-largest parish (approximately 440,000 residents).
Retrieval noteCertified true copy from the Clerk of Court; both pages read by rendering to PNG. The parish's CDN host (azureedge.net) no longer resolves; every Jefferson Parish PDF was retrieved from Wayback captures.