The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Montgomery County, Pennsylvania (Board of Health) · Philadelphia · Pennsylvania
- Level
- County
- Authority
- Disease Prevention and Control Law of 1955; Montgomery County Health Code
- Issued
- 2020-11-13 Nov. 13, 2020
- Effective
- 2020-11-23
- End
- 2020-12-06 (in-person instruction could resume Dec. 7, 2020) (read as 2020-12-06)
- In force
- Nov. 23, 2020 to Dec. 6, 2020
- Quarters
- 2020 Q4
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Gathering capSchools and child care
- Addressees
- all public and private K-12 schools in Montgomery County
- Functions reached
- WF school-day child care removed for every employee with school-age children in the county
- IN in-person instruction (private schools) suspended
- AC athletics and activities cancelled
- Collection
- Philadelphia MET-PHL
Operative words
Not read; press quoting the order: 'The implementation of virtual schools during the period of peak contagion is designed to reduce the spread of COVID-19 and is essential to ensure the protection of children, teachers, school staff and others who are impacted, as well as those in the general community.'
Enforcement
Board of Health order under the Disease Prevention and Control Law; a parents' motion for an injunction was refused in the Court of Common Pleas (press)
Notes
The only mandatory county health order closing a sector located in the four suburban counties; reached private schools directly
Retrieval noteExistence, issuer, vote, dates and coverage (public and private, no special-education exemption, extracurriculars cancelled) verified from WHYY's report of Nov. 13, 2020; the order's PDF was not located on the county's rebuilt site.