The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- South Carolina
- Level
- State
- Authority
- As EO 2020-50; S.C. Code §§ 1-3-410, 25-1-440, 25-1-450
- Issued
- 2021-03-05 Mar. 5, 2021
- Effective
- 2021-03-05 (immediately) (read as 2021-03-05)
- End
- 2021-05-11 (superseded by EO 2021-23) (read as 2021-05-11)
- In force
- Mar. 5, 2021 to May 11, 2021
- Quarters
- 2021 Q12021 Q2
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Emergency declarationTelework mandateOther
- Addressees
- restaurants and the public (guidelines)
- State agencies and employees
- counties and municipalities
- Functions reached
- end of the restaurant and State-building mask mandates
- OF State offices return ordered
- local mask ordinances preserved
- Collection
- South Carolina SC
Operative words
Section 2. Emergency Guidelines Regarding Face Coverings. A. I hereby encourage all individuals within the State of South Carolina to wear a Face Covering... Section 3. Emergency Guidelines Regarding Restaurant Operations. A. I hereby urge any and all restaurants... to consider, incorporate, and adhere to, to the greatest extent practicable, the following guidelines... Section 5(D). I hereby direct all state agencies to immediately expedite the transition back to normal operations. All Agency Heads, or their designees, shall submit to the Department of Administration, for review and approval, a plan to expeditiously return all non-essential employees and staff to the workplace on a full-time basis.... § 2(G): [nothing herein] prohibit[s] counties and municipalities of this State from enacting or implementing... appropriate and narrowly tailored emergency ordinances, orders, or other measures requiring individuals to wear a Face Covering
Enforcement
§ 12 (§ 16-7-10(A)) for the remaining directives; face-covering and restaurant provisions became guidance
Notes
The instrument that ended South Carolina's general business restrictions (Mar. 5, 2021).