The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- City of St. Louis, Missouri · St. Louis · Missouri
- Level
- City
- Authority
- Charter of the City of St. Louis art. XIII, § 14-C(c)
- Issued
- 2020-03-13 Mar. 13, 2020
- Effective
- 2020-03-13
- End
- Continuing; renewed by the Proclamation of July 23, 2021 (Ex. MET-STL-020) (read as 2021-07-23)
- In force
- Mar. 13, 2020 to July 23, 2021
- Quarters
- 2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Emergency declaration
- Addressees
- Director of Health and Hospitals/Health Commissioner
- the public
- Functions reached
- predicate for all City orders
- Collection
- St. Louis MET-STL
Operative words
Pursuant to Article XIII, Section 14-C(c) of the Charter of the City of St. Louis I find that COVID-19, a malignant, infectious, and contagious disease, is threatened in the City of St. Louis, and accordingly I hereby so proclaim. Accordingly, the Director of Health and Hospitals/Health Commissioner may take such steps, use such measures, and incur such expenses as he deems necessary to avoid, suppress, and mitigate that disease until I proclaim the need therefore ended, notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the charter or in any ordinance.
Enforcement
Predicate for every Health Commissioner's Order; the Charter clause displaces contrary ordinances
Notes
The predicate instrument for Health Commissioner's Orders Nos. 1-18 (2020-21). Saved as a rendering of the City's archived web posting of the Proclamation text.
Retrieval noteThe same Proclamation text is reproduced on page 1 of Ex. MET-STL-002.