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Emergency Executive Order 20-16

Directing Non-Hospital Entities to Inventory and Preserve Vital Medical Equipment During the COVID-19 Peacetime Emergency

Governor Tim Walz · Minnesota (State)

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Jurisdiction
Minnesota
Level
State
Authority
Minn. Stat. secs. 12.21, subd. 3, 4.035, subd. 2
Issued
2020-03-23 Mar. 23, 2020
Effective
2020-03-23 (inventory due Mar. 25, 2020) (read as 2020-03-23)
End
Para. 3 use restriction narrowed 11:59 p.m. May 10, 2020 (EO 20-51 para. 3); rescinded by EO 20-84 (Aug. 2020) (read as 2020-05-10)
In force
Mar. 23, 2020 to May 10, 2020
Quarters
2020 Q22020 Q3
Limitation types
Health care ordersSupply chain
Addressees
  • any Minnesota business, nonprofit, or non-hospital health care facility, 'whether veterinary, dental, construction, research, institution of higher learning, or other'
Functions reached
  • SC PPE supply
  • PR procedures requiring PPE
  • JS job sites (construction PPE)
  • ST sterilization and infection control
Collection
Minnesota MN

Operative words

1. Any Minnesota business, nonprofit, or non-hospital health care facility, whether veterinary, dental, construction, research, institution of higher learning, or other, in possession of PPE, ventilators, respirators, or anesthesia machines... must undertake an inventory of such supplies no later than March 25, 2020.... 3. Any Minnesota business, nonprofit, or non-hospital health care facility must refrain from using any such consumable equipment other than for use in delivering critical health care services or essential services requiring such equipment, and must either donate it to a local coordinating entity or prepare for the possibility of being asked to donate or sell it for use by critical health care workers.

Enforcement

Emergency order with force of law under sec. 12.32; no separate penalty paragraph (sec. 12.45 general misdemeanor applies to willful violations of emergency orders)

Notes

A State allocation order on private inventories of N95s, gowns and gloves held by dental offices, contractors, laboratories and colleges.