The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Missouri
- Level
- State
- Authority
- Statute, RSMo 67.265 (L. 2021 H.B. 271)
- Issued
- 2021-06-15 June 15, 2021
- Effective
- 2021-06-15
- End
- In force (statute) (read as 2021-09-30)
- In force
- June 15, 2021 to Sept. 30, 2021
- Quarters
- 2021 Q22021 Q3
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Other
- Addressees
- political subdivisions, local health officers and agencies
- businesses, churches, schools and places of assembly subject to local orders
- Functions reached
- governs every local order reaching every function from June 15, 2021
- Collection
- Missouri MO
Operative words
(1) Any order issued during and related to an emergency declared pursuant to chapter 44 that directly or indirectly closes, partially closes, or places restrictions on the opening of or access to any one or more business organizations, churches, schools, or other places of public or private gathering or assembly, including any order, ordinance, rule, or regulation of general applicability or that prohibits or otherwise limits attendance at any public or private gatherings, shall not remain in effect for longer than thirty calendar days in a one hundred eighty-day-period, including the cumulative duration of similar orders issued concurrently, consecutively, or successively, and shall automatically expire at the end of the thirty days or as specified in the order, whichever is shorter, unless so authorized by a simple majority vote of the political subdivision's governing body to extend such order or approve a similar order; provided that such extension or approval of similar orders shall not exceed thirty calendar days in duration and any order may be extended more than once; and (2) Any order of general applicability issued at a time other than an emergency declared pursuant to chapter 44 that directly or indirectly closes an entire classification of business organizations, churches, schools, or other places of public or private gathering or assembly shall not remain in effect for longer than twenty-one calendar days in a one hundred eighty-day-period... unless so authorized by a two-thirds majority vote of the political subdivision's governing body
Enforcement
Automatic expiration of non-conforming local orders; governing body may terminate any order by simple majority (subsec. 2); political subdivisions may not circumvent (subsecs. 5-6)
Notes
The statute presupposes and regulates local closure, restriction and gathering orders; it did not abolish them. The St. Louis County Council's July 27, 2021 vote against the County's mask order was taken under this section (Ballotpedia).
Retrieval noteCodified text read on the Revisor's page (live and archived).