Mayoral Proclamation of Civil Emergency (COVID-19)

The record

Jurisdiction

City of Seattle, Washington · Seattle · Washington

Level

City

Authority

Seattle City Charter art. V, § 2; SMC ch. 10.02; RCW ch. 38.52 (as recited in the orders issued under it)

Issued

2020-03-03 Mar. 3, 2020

Effective

2020-03-03

End

Continuing through Sept. 30, 2021 and beyond (EO 2021-07 of Sept. 21, 2021 acts under it; MET-SEA-019); terminated in 2022 (post-period; date not verified) (read as 2021-09-30)

In force

Mar. 3, 2020 to Sept. 30, 2021

Quarters

2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3

2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3

Limitation types

Emergency declaration

Addressees

• City departments
• the public

Functions reached

• predicate for every Seattle closure, eviction, delivery-fee and personnel order

Collection

Seattle MET-SEA

Operative words

[Scanned image; text layer absent. The Mayor's release of Mar. 3, 2020 describes it: the Proclamation 'grants the Mayor emergency authority to take measures to address imminent threats to public health and safety caused by COVID-19', including to bypass regulations and City contracting procedures, forgo permits for COVID-19 facilities and 'immediately adjust use and closure of City facilities and events'. Every later Seattle order recites: 'in my capacity as Mayor, I proclaimed a civil emergency exists in the City of Seattle in the Mayoral Proclamation of Civil Emergency dated March 3, 2020'.]

Enforcement

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