The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Pennsylvania
- Level
- State
- Authority
- 35 P.S. §§ 521.1, 521.5 (Disease Prevention and Control Law); 71 P.S. §§ 532(a), 536; 28 Pa. Code §§ 27.60-27.68
- Issued
- 2020-03-19 Mar. 19, 2020
- Effective
- 2020-03-19
- End
- As PA-002 (read as 2020-09-30)
- In force
- Mar. 19, 2020 to Sept. 30, 2020
- Quarters
- 2020 Q22020 Q3
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Business closureTelework mandateAlcohol and bars
- Addressees
- all businesses
- restaurants and bars
- Functions reached
- Collection
- Pennsylvania PA
Operative words
No person or entity shall operate a place of business in the Commonwealth that is not a life sustaining business regardless of whether the business is open to members of the public. This prohibition does not apply to virtual or telework operations (e.g., work from home), so long as social distancing and other mitigation measures are followed in such operations. (identical operative text to PA-002; quotation from the prior engagement's OCR of this scanned original)
Enforcement
Disease Prevention and Control Law, 35 P.S. § 521.20; Department of Health and licensing agencies
Notes
Companion order issued under the Secretary's independent disease-control authority, which is why the Commonwealth's later mitigation orders were issued in pairs (Governor and Secretary).
Retrieval noteScanned original without text layer; operative words taken from the prior engagement's OCR (.ocr.txt) and checked against the Governor's identical order (PA-002).