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The record
- Jurisdiction
- Minnesota
- Level
- State
- Authority
- Minn. Stat. secs. 12.21, subd. 3, 12.32, 12.45; approved by the Executive Council Mar. 20, 2020
- Issued
- 2020-03-19 Mar. 19, 2020
- Effective
- 2020-03-23 5:00 p.m. (read as 2020-03-23)
- End
- 2020-05-10 11:59 p.m. (rescinded by EO 20-51 para. 2) (read as 2020-05-10)
- In force
- Mar. 23, 2020 to May 10, 2020
- Quarters
- 2020 Q2
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Health care orders
- Addressees
- hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers, physician and dental practices
- veterinary practices (clarified by EO 20-17)
- Functions reached
- SX surgery and elective procedures
- PR elective and aerosol-generating dental procedures
- OC outpatient clinics
- CB patients
- SC PPE
- Collection
- Minnesota MN
Operative words
1. Beginning no later than March 23, 2020 at 5:00 pm, and continuing for the duration of the peacetime emergency declared in Executive Order 20-01 or until this Executive Order is rescinded, all non-essential or elective surgeries and procedures, including non-emergent or elective dental care, that utilize PPE or ventilators must be postponed indefinitely. 2. A non-essential surgery or procedure is a surgery or procedure that can be delayed without undue risk to the current or future health of a patient.
Enforcement
Para. 3: willful violation of para. 1 'is guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction must be punished by a fine not to exceed $1,000, or by imprisonment for not more than 90 days' (sec. 12.45)
Notes
Seven weeks of mandated postponement (Mar. 23 to May 10, 2020) for every Minnesota surgical, procedural and dental practice; EO 20-17 (Mar. 24, 2020, not saved) applied it to veterinary procedures; the Board of Dentistry's own updates track it (MN-057).