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Interpretive Guidance COVID19-04 (Mar. 23, 2020)

Interpretive Guidance COVID19-04: Order of the Governor Number 20-03-23-01, Amending and Restating the Order of March 19, 2020, Prohibiting Large Gatherings and Events and Closing Senior Centers, and Additionally Closing All Non-Essential Businesses and Other Establishments

Office of Legal Counsel to the Governor · Maryland (State)

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The record

Jurisdiction
Maryland
Level
State
Authority
Md. Code, Pub. Safety secs. 14-303, 14-3A-03; Executive Order 20-03-23-01
Issued
2020-03-23 Mar. 23, 2020
Effective
2020-03-23 5:00 p.m. (with the Order) (read as 2020-03-23)
End
Revised with successive orders; the closure order restated by EO 20-03-30-01 (Mar. 30) and lifted in stages from May 15, 2020 (read as 2020-05-15)
In force
Mar. 23, 2020 to May 15, 2020
Quarters
2020 Q2
Limitation types
Business closure
Addressees
  • all non-essential businesses
  • the federal critical infrastructure sectors as interpreted
Functions reached
  • LS landscapers permitted (Commercial Facilities Sector)
  • JS janitorial firms permitted
  • PL staffing services permitted only as 'Supporting Firms' to critical-infrastructure businesses (placements at every other client barred)
  • SG (Emergency Services and Commercial Facilities sectors)
  • CC/OP non-essential offices closed
Collection
Staffing and Support Services SEC-19

Operative words

b. The Commercial Facilities Sector includes, but is not limited to: i. Lodging. ii. Building and property maintenance companies, including without limitation plumbers, electricians, HVAC service companies, roofers, environmental services companies, exterminators, arborists, and landscapers. iii. Janitorial firms.... o. Supporting Firms. The federal critical infrastructure sectors include firms providing the following to any other business, organization, or facility included in the federal critical infrastructure sectors: i. Staffing and/or payroll services. ii. Essential raw materials, products, or services.

Enforcement

Pub. Safety sec. 14-114(c) (misdemeanor: up to one year and $5,000) as recited in the Order

Notes

Maryland is the verified example of a State that named landscapers, janitorial firms and staffing services in its interpretive list; the staffing permission is expressly derivative of the client's status, which is the industry's structural point.

Retrieval note

Raw Wayback PDF of Mar. 31, 2020; document dated Mar. 23, 2020 (file renamed from the provisional Mar. 30 date); text read.

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