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Executive Order 2020-59

Temporary requirement to suspend activities that are not necessary to sustain or protect life (rescission of Executive Order 2020-42)

Governor Gretchen Whitmer · Michigan (State)

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The record

Jurisdiction
Michigan
Level
State
Authority
Emergency Management Act, MCL 30.403; Emergency Powers of the Governor Act, MCL 10.31-.33
Issued
2020-04-24 Apr. 24, 2020
Effective
2020-04-24 (immediately) (read as 2020-04-24)
End
2020-05-15 11:59 p.m. (superseded by EO 2020-70, May 1, 2020, which carried the same landscaping clause and added outdoor work May 7) (read as 2020-05-15)
In force
Apr. 24, 2020 to May 15, 2020
Quarters
2020 Q2
Limitation types
Stay-at-homeBusiness closureFace-covering requirementWorkplace rules
Addressees
  • all individuals
  • all businesses and operations
  • garden stores, nurseries, lawn care, pest control and landscaping operations
Functions reached
  • LS landscaping and lawn care resumed Apr. 24, 2020 only under enhanced distancing rules after a bar from Mar. 24
  • OP in-person work still prohibited unless necessary to sustain or protect life
  • CB residential and commercial customers under stay-home
  • WF
Collection
Staffing and Support Services SEC-19

Operative words

10. For purposes of this order, workers who perform resumed activities are defined as follows: (a) Workers who process or fulfill remote orders for goods for delivery or curbside pick-up. (b) Workers who perform bicycle maintenance or repair. (c) Workers for garden stores, nurseries, and lawn care, pest control, and landscaping operations, subject to the enhanced social-distancing rules described in section 11(h) of this order. (d) Maintenance workers and groundskeepers who are necessary to maintain the safety and sanitation of places of outdoor recreation... (e) Workers for moving or storage operations... This order takes effect immediately... and continues through May 15, 2020 at 11:59 pm. Executive Order 2020-42 is rescinded.... Consistent with MCL 10.33 and MCL 30.405(3), a willful violation of this order is a misdemeanor.

Enforcement

Misdemeanor, MCL 10.33 and 30.405(3) (recited)

Notes

Michigan is the verified landscaping-closure State: EO 2020-21 (Mar. 23; eff. Mar. 24) and EO 2020-42 (Apr. 9) prohibited in-person work not necessary to sustain or protect life and the State's FAQ placed landscaping outside critical infrastructure; EO 2020-59 sec. 10(c) is the first permission, and it is conditional. 9(c) (MI-020); the Governor's posted text numbers it 10(c).

Retrieval note

The Legislature's PDF is a scanned signed original (no text layer); the operative text was read from the Governor's posted text at https://www.michigan.gov/whitmer/news/state-orders-and-directives/2020/04/24/executive-order-2020-59.

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