The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Massachusetts
- Level
- State
- Authority
- Civil Defense Act, St. 1950, c. 639, ss. 7, 8, 8A; G.L. c. 17, s. 2A
- Issued
- 2020-07-24 July 24, 2020
- Effective
- 2020-08-01 12:01 a.m. (read as 2020-08-01)
- End
- Rescinded 12:01 a.m. Mar. 22, 2021 by COVID-19 Order No. 66 s. 4 and replaced by a DPH travel advisory (MA-045) (read as 2021-03-22)
- In force
- Aug. 1, 2020 to Mar. 22, 2021
- Quarters
- 2020 Q32020 Q42021 Q1
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Travel and quarantineWorkplace rulesQuarantine and isolation
- Addressees
- all persons arriving in Massachusetts by any means or mode
- employers
- Functions reached
- TV
- LG every lodging guest
- GS group and convention customers
- WF employees returning from travel
- CB
- Collection
- Hotels, Travel and Tourism SEC-06
Operative words
Effective at 12:01 am on August 1, 2020, all persons arriving in Massachusetts by any means or mode must quarantine for 14 days in accordance with standards issued by the Commissioner of the Department of Public Health unless (a) the person is coming from a State designated by the Commissioner as a COVID-19 lower-risk State... or (b) the person has received a negative test result for COVID-19 from a test performed on a sample taken not longer than 72 hours before the person's arrival in Massachusetts and can produce proof of the negative test result on request; or (c) the person falls within one of the limited, circumstance-specific exceptions specified in Section 4.
Enforcement
Civil fine of $500 per day (s. 5)
Notes
Massachusetts Travel Form required; the Order recites that travelers from high-infection States 'may present a new source of transmission'. File is the Governor's Office.docx (text read directly).
Retrieval noteSame instrument as MA-025 and ECO-C-012. The file is a Word document, not a PDF.