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Director's Stay at Home Tonight Order (Twenty-One Day Order)

Director's Twenty-One Day Order that All Persons Stay at Home During Specified Hours Unless Engaged in Work or Essential Activity

Stephanie McCloud, Director, Ohio Department of Health · Ohio (State)

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Jurisdiction
Ohio
Level
State
Authority
R.C. 3701.13
Issued
2020-11-19 Nov. 19, 2020
Effective
2020-11-19 12:01 p.m. (read as 2020-11-19)
End
21 days (Dec. 10, 2020); continued by Ex. OH-040 (Dec. 10), OH-104 (Dec. 30), OH-041 (Jan. 22, 2021) and OH-042 (Jan. 27, 2021) to 12:01 p.m. Feb. 11, 2021 (read as 2020-12-10)
In force
Nov. 19, 2020 to Dec. 10, 2020
Quarters
2020 Q4
Limitation types
Stay-at-homeBusiness closureCurfew and hours
Addressees
  • all individuals residing in Ohio
  • businesses open between 10:00 p.m. and 5:00 a.m.
Functions reached
  • CB customers confined to residence 10:00 p.m.-5:00 a.m.
  • DR/BA late dining and bars
  • SF retail evening hours (Governor's release: retail closed during curfew hours; verified_secondary)
  • PE evening performances
  • AM amusement
  • WF night shifts (permitted 'for work')
Collection
Ohio OH

Operative words

Unless you need to go to work or obtain necessary food, medical care or social services, you must stay home at night. 1. Stay at home or place of residence. All individuals residing within the State of Ohio are ordered to stay at a place of residence during the hours of 10:00 p.m. until 5:00 a.m. except as otherwise expressly permitted in this Order.... 3. Prohibited and permitted travel. This Order permits travel into or out of the State.... 4. Leaving the home for Essential Activities is permitted.... d. For work. To engage in employment, including volunteer work.... 5. Miscellaneous.... This Order is not intended to supersede, supplant or preempt any order or law of a local jurisdiction that is more restrictive than this Order. 6. Duration. This Order shall be effective at 12:01 p.m. on November 19, 2020 and remains in full force and effect for twenty-one (21) days...

Enforcement

R.C. 3701.352 and 3701.99(C)

Notes

Every Ohio county was a 'high incidence' county (preamble).