Skip to content
The COVID Project
  1. Library
  2. West Virginia
  3. WV-046

Ex. WV-046 Order Primary source read

Executive Order 68-20

Public and private pre-K-12 schools required to follow the DHHR County Alert System for in-person instruction and athletics

Governor Jim Justice · West Virginia (State)

Open exhibit (PDF, 213 KB)Source (opens in a new tab)Archived copy (opens in a new tab)
The COVID Project

The record

Jurisdiction
West Virginia
Level
State
Authority
W. Va. Code 15-5-6 and 15-5-1
Issued
2020-09-04 Sept. 4, 2020
Effective
2020-09-04
End
Amended by EO 71-20 (Sept. 23, 2020); terminated Jan. 11, 2021 (EO 1-21) (read as 2020-09-23)
In force
Sept. 4, 2020 to Sept. 23, 2020
Quarters
2020 Q32020 Q42021 Q1
Limitation types
Schools and child careEvents and venues
Addressees
  • private and public pre-K through 12 schools
Functions reached
  • IN in-person instruction (remote in Orange and Red counties)
  • AC athletics
  • WF workforce (parents)
  • FS school food service
Collection
West Virginia WV

Operative words

private and public pre-K through 12 schools are required to follow the County Alert System's county-by-county color-coded system maintained by the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources, as it relates to any limitations or prohibitions on occupancy of such educational institutions for in-person instruction and/or athletic and extracurricular activities.

Enforcement

Order under W. Va. Code 15-5-6; administered by the Department of Education and DHHR

Notes

The County Alert System map (green, yellow, gold, orange, red) governed school occupancy county by county through the 2020-21 year and continued to govern travel sports in Red counties through the third quarter of 2021 (EO 12-21 paragraph 6).

Retrieval note

Read by OCR.

A record of The COVID Project. The instrument's text is the source's; the summary fields are The COVID Project's reading of it. Not legal advice.