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Ex. MET-PHL-068 Order Primary source read

Extension of the state of emergency (county offices closed indefinitely)

Freeholder Board Extends State of Emergency in Camden County (Mar. 28, 2020)

Camden County Board of Chosen Freeholders (Freeholder Jonathan Young) · Camden County, New Jersey (County)

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Jurisdiction
Camden County, New Jersey · Philadelphia · Pennsylvania
Level
County
Authority
N.J.S.A. App. A:9-30 et seq.
Issued
2020-03-28 Mar. 28, 2020
Effective
2020-03-28
End
'until a safe end date has been determined by the Camden County Health Department'; no termination located before Sept. 30, 2021 (read as 2021-09-30)
In force
Mar. 28, 2020 to Sept. 30, 2021
Quarters
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
Limitation types
Emergency declarationBusiness closureTelework mandateSchools and child careCourts and public offices
Addressees
  • Camden County government, agencies, employees and the public
Functions reached
  • CT county offices closed to the public indefinitely; sheriff sales and evictions halted
  • OF
  • WF
Collection
Philadelphia MET-PHL

Operative words

This declaration was amended to extend the order indefinitely keeping county offices closed until a safe end date has been determined by the Camden County Health Department. Camden County and its agencies will continue to keep emergency measures in place to reduce governmental operations to only essential functions.... Non-essential employees will not report to work but will remain on call to work remotely as needed.... As previously announced, all branches of the Camden County Library System are closed.... Both campuses... of the Camden County Technical Schools will close and implement remote learning until at least April 20.... At this time, all Camden County Sheriff sales have been halted, and all evictions have been stopped. The Camden County Parks Department has also suspended all park permitting and playgrounds will remain closed.

Enforcement

County emergency powers

Notes

The Camden County Health Department is named as the authority to fix the end date

Retrieval note

The County's site search located no release ending the county state of emergency, no county mask order and no county employee vaccination mandate; the County's later COVID-19 items are CDC-guidance restatements (July 28, 2021) and vaccination clinics.