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ND Smart Restart standards: Banquets, Ballrooms, Weddings and Event Venues (updated May 29, 2020)

Event-venue standards: capacity limited to a percentage of normal operating capacity or a total cap by risk level; at Orange/High risk 'Limit gathering size to 10 people or less... gatherings, events and fitness and recreational centers are closed'; tribal-law requirements noted

Department of Commerce and State Health Officer (ND Smart Restart) · North Dakota (State)

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The record

Jurisdiction
North Dakota
Level
State
Authority
Guidance under EO 2020-03; capacity tiers incorporated as binding caps by EO 2020-43 ¶ 1(a) ('not to exceed the capacity limits identified within the ND Smart Restart Large Gathering Tiered Capacity document')
Issued
2020-05-29 May 29, 2020
Effective
2020-05-29 (guidance); binding as the reference capacity document under EO 2020-43 from Nov. 16, 2020 to Jan. 18, 2021 (read as 2020-05-29)
End
2021-01-18 (EO 2020-43.5 rescinded the venue capacity limits) (read as 2021-01-18)
In force
May 29, 2020 to Jan. 18, 2021
Quarters
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q1
Limitation types
Capacity limitGathering capEvents and venues
Addressees
  • banquet halls, ballrooms, wedding and event venues
  • event organizers
Functions reached
  • MC meetings and conventions
  • BQ banquets
  • EV events and fundraising
  • WS worship gatherings (guidance)
Collection
North Dakota ND

Operative words

Capacity should be limited to a percentage of normal operating capacity for controlled and managed facilities or capped at a total number. If there is no way to control access of entry (egress), spread out activities to double the normal footprint.... Orange/High Risk Level... Only essential work and travel are open. Limit gathering size to 10 people or less.... Yellow/Moderate Risk Level... Group gatherings are limited by certificate of occupancy for the room or seating area according to industry-specific Smart Restart protocols and social distancing is maintained. Cancel gatherings of any size where distancing cannot be maintained.

Enforcement

Guidance until incorporated by EO 2020-43 (infraction; law enforcement directed to enforce)

Notes

Hotels, convention venues, caterers, churches and nonprofits: the State's gathering-size regime for the whole period, made binding for event venues in the winter of 2020-21.