The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- United States (trade association; context)
- Level
- Sector regulator
- Authority
- None (advocacy statement; secondary evidence of early State designations)
- Issued
- 2020-03-17 Mar. 17, 2020
- Effective
- n/a (read as 2020-03-17)
- End
- n/a
- In force
- Mar. 17, 2020 (no end date recorded; counted as in force for 120 days)
- Limitation types
- Other
- Addressees
- State and local governments
- Functions reached
- CL
- WF (travel letters for staff under stay-home orders)
- SC
- Collection
- Veterinary and Animal Services SEC-26
Operative words
In some localities, such as San Francisco, and states, like Maryland and Pennsylvania, veterinary practices are appropriately considered 'essential businesses.'... We urge all authorities to similarly designate veterinary practices as essential businesses, and also ensure their ability to obtai[n PPE].... With shelter-at-home and similar orders in place in some locations, veterinary practices that remain open may need or want to provide documentation for team members to travel to and from work.
Enforcement
Notes
Contemporaneous evidence that the industry's continued operation depended on jurisdiction-by-jurisdiction designation and that staff needed authorization letters to travel to work under the stay-home orders.