The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Pennsylvania
- Level
- State
- Authority
- Disease Prevention and Control Law, 35 P.S. 521.5; Administrative Code 2102(a), 2106, 71 P.S. 532(a), 536; 28 Pa. Code 27.60-27.68
- Issued
- 2020-11-17 Nov. 17, 2020
- Effective
- 2020-11-20 12:01 a.m. (read as 2020-11-20)
- End
- Amended Nov. 25 (PA-027) and Dec. 9, 2020 (ten-day quarantine, PA-113); terminated Mar. 1, 2021 (PA-032) (read as 2020-12-09)
- In force
- Nov. 20, 2020 to Dec. 9, 2020
- Quarters
- 2020 Q42021 Q1
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Travel and quarantineQuarantine and isolation
- Addressees
- every person entering or returning to the Commonwealth (commuters and medical travel exempt)
- lodging (every inbound guest)
- Functions reached
- TV
- LG every inbound hotel guest
- GS
- WF employees returning from travel
- CB
- Collection
- Hotels, Travel and Tourism SEC-06
Operative words
[Section 2]... [every person who enters the Commonwealth from another state or country, other than the exempt classes,] must produce evidence of a negative SARS-CoV2 (COVID-19) [test taken within 72 hours prior to entering the] Commonwealth, or quarantine for 14 days upon entering, unless they [fall within an exemption]... Section 5: Effective Date and Duration. This Order shall take effect at 12:01 a.m. on November 20, 2020 and shall [remain in effect until further notice].
Enforcement
35 P.S. 521.20 (summary offense); Governor's parallel Order Directing Travel Mitigation (PA-070)
Notes
Issued with the Governor's Nov. 17, 2020 Order Directing Travel Mitigation (PA-070); the Secretary's recitals list the closure, mitigation and business orders of Mar.-July 2020 that preceded it.
Retrieval noteBracketed words fill line breaks in the exhibit's Section 2; quote from the exhibit when citing.