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Ex. DUT-WV-027Executive Order 77-20 (Face Covering Order), paras. 1 and 2 (cross-reference to Ex. WV-051; predecessor EO 50-20, Ex. WV-041; not re-saved)Face coverings in every confined indoor public space regardless of distancing; businesses 'shall require compliance..., shall post adequate…Governor Jim JusticeWest VirginiaStateNov. 13, 20202020 Q42021 Q12021 Q2Standing dutyWorkplace rulesStanding dutyOperating conditionPrimary source read
Ex. MS-060City of Jackson COVID-19 Executive Orders (compilation, 102 pages): Proclamation of Civil Emergency (Mar. 16, 2020); Proclamation of Executive Order Requiring Individuals to Stay at Home, Barring Non-Essential Business (Mar. 31, 2020; effective Apr. 3 - Apr. 17, 2020; continued Apr. 16 and Apr. 30, 2020 to May 15); Stay Safe Jackson Executive Order (effective May 16, 2020); Amended (June 4, 2020) and Second Amended Stay Safe Jackson (effective July 2, 2020); Mayoral Curfew Orders (effective Aug. 12 and Aug. 19, 2020); Proclamations closing City Hall and requiring non-essential City employees to work remotely (Dec. 19, 2020 - Jan. 6, 2021; Jan. 7 - Jan. 21; Jan. 22 - Feb. 12, 2021; Dec. 29, 2021 - Jan. 5, 2022); Safe Recovery Jackson Executive Order (effective May 10, 2021) and Amended Safe Recovery Jackson Executive Order (effective May 24, 2021); City employee face-covering-or-vaccination Executive Orders (effective Aug. 16, 2021; amended effective Aug. 23, 2021; amended effective Sept. 20, 2021)COVID-19 Executive Orders, City of JacksonMayor Chokwe Antar LumumbaCity of Jackson, Mississippi (Hinds County)CityMar. 16, 20202020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3Emergency declarationStay-at-homeBusiness closureTelework mandateGathering capFace-covering requirementCurfew and hoursAlcohol and barsWorkplace rulesVaccination or testingPrimary source read
Ex. OK-064Ordinance No. 24408Face Covering and Social Distancing During COVID-19 Pandemic Civil Emergency: face coverings mandatory in public service areas of places of…Tulsa City Council (adopted July 15, 2020) and Mayor G.T. Bynum (approved July 16, 2020)Tulsa, OklahomaCityJuly 15, 20202020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q2Emergency declarationFace-covering requirementWorkplace rulesPrimary source read
Ex. DUT-KY-018902 KAR 2:210E (new emergency administrative regulation)Covering the face in response to declared national or state public health emergencyCabinet for Health and Family Services, Department for Public Health, Division of Epidemiology (Secretary Eric C. Friedlander; Governor Andy Beshear)KentuckyStateAug. 7, 20202020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q2Standing dutyBusiness closureFace-covering requirementWorkplace rulesStanding dutyPrimary source read
Ex. DUT-IL-004Emergency amendment to 77 Ill. Adm. Code 690 adding Section 690.50, Pandemic or Epidemic Respiratory Disease - Emergency ProvisionsFace-covering and gathering requirements binding every business, service, facility and organization open to the public or to employees, with…Illinois Department of Public HealthIllinoisStateAug. 7, 20202020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q2Standing dutyCapacity limitGathering capFace-covering requirementWorkplace rulesStanding dutyPrimary source read
Ex. MS-051Executive Order 1549Repeal of the Safe Recovery Order and the county face-covering mandate; business rules become recommendations; school face coverings and…Governor Tate ReevesMississippiStateMar. 2, 20212021 Q12021 Q2Emergency declarationCapacity limitFace-covering requirementSchools and child careEvents and venuesPrimary source read
Ex. KY-049Executive Order 2021-386State of Emergency: rescission of Healthy at Home, Healthy at Work, capacity and general face-covering orders; masks kept for public…Governor Andy BeshearKentuckyStateJune 11, 20212021 Q22021 Q3Emergency declarationFace-covering requirementHealth care ordersPrimary source read
Ex. MET-CLT-011Amended Joint Proclamation (face coverings)Amended Joint Proclamation of the Chairman and Mecklenburg County Board of Commissioners, Mayor of the City of Charlotte and Mayor of the…Chair George Dunlap; Mayor Vi Lyles; Mayor John Higdon (Matthews), in consultation with the Public Health DirectorMecklenburg County; City of Charlotte; Town of MatthewsCountyJuly 7, 20202020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q2Emergency declarationFace-covering requirementWorkplace rulesPrimary source read
Ex. LA-032Proclamation 93 JBE 2021COVID-19 Public Health Emergency - Mitigation Measures (all business capacity and crowd rules ended; masks on conveyances, in corrections…Governor John Bel EdwardsLouisianaStateMay 25, 20212021 Q2Emergency declarationFace-covering requirementSchools and child careOtherPrimary source read
Ex. MS-053Executive Order 1551Rescinding EO 1549 as amended by EO 1550; all business terms recommendations; school face coverings mandatory for the remainder of the…Governor Tate ReevesMississippiStateApr. 30, 20212021 Q22021 Q3Emergency declarationFace-covering requirementSchools and child careOtherPrimary source read
Ex. DUT-TN-015Tenn. Att'y Gen. Op. No. 20-14Constitutionality of Governmental Mandate to Wear Face CoveringsHerbert H. Slatery III, Attorney General and Reporter, State of TennesseeTennesseeStateJuly 16, 20202020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3Standing dutyFace-covering requirementStanding dutyPrimary source read
Ex. OK-086Ordinance No. 3472Extension of the face-covering mandate (Ordinances 3452 and 3463) to May 25, 2021Stillwater City Council (adopted Feb. 24, 2021) and Mayor William H. JoyceStillwater, OklahomaCityFeb. 24, 20212021 Q12021 Q2Emergency declarationFace-covering requirementPrimary source read
Ex. OK-063Executive Order No. 2020-13 (Replacing Executive Order 2020-10)Events and gatherings of 500 or more require a Tulsa Health Department-approved COVID-19 safety plan (from July 16, 2020); all bar and…Mayor G.T. BynumTulsa, OklahomaCityJuly 2, 20202020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q2Emergency declarationFace-covering requirementEvents and venuesWorkplace rulesPrimary source read
Ex. DUT-IL-019Emergency amendment to 77 Ill. Adm. Code 690 (Section 690.50), 45 Ill. Reg. 987, effective January 4, 2021, as summarized in The Flinn Report, Vol. 45, Issue 3 (Jan. 15, 2021), with JCAR's vote of January 12, 2021Re-adoption of the business face-covering and gathering rule for 2021, 'nearly identical' to 44 Ill. Reg. 13807; JCAR motion to object and…Joint Committee on Administrative Rules (JCAR), Illinois General Assembly (The Flinn Report), describing the Illinois Department of Public Health's emergency ruleIllinoisStateJan. 4, 20212021 Q12021 Q2Standing dutyCapacity limitGathering capFace-covering requirementWorkplace rulesStanding dutyConfirmed from a secondary source
Ex. DUT-IL-016Press release, 'Gov. Pritzker Announces Efforts to Protect Illinois Communities and Frontline Workers in Response to Ongoing COVID-19 Pandemic' (announcing the IDPH emergency rules for businesses, schools and child care and the signing of SB 471)Official description of the three-step enforcement of the business face-covering and gathering rule (written notice; order to disperse…Governor JB Pritzker (Office of the Governor release, with IDPH Director Ngozi Ezike)IllinoisStateAug. 7, 20202020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q2Standing dutyGathering capFace-covering requirementWorkplace rulesStanding dutyPrimary source read
Ex. LA-034Proclamation 117 JBE 2021COVID-19 Public Health Emergency - Mitigation Measures (emergency renewed)Governor John Bel EdwardsLouisianaStateJune 22, 20212021 Q22021 Q3Emergency declarationFace-covering requirementOtherPrimary source read
Ex. MET-DCM-124Executive Order 14-2021 (May 26, 2021), as amended by Executive Order 17-2021 (June 28, 2021)Alignment of county face-covering rules with the State of Maryland (effective May 28, 2021, 5:00 p.m.); continued local emergencyCounty Executive Angela D. AlsobrooksPrince George's County, MarylandCountyMay 26, 20212021 Q22021 Q3Emergency declarationFace-covering requirementTravel and quarantineSchools and child careHealth care ordersConfirmed from a secondary source
Ex. OK-068Ordinance No. 24516Final extension of the face-covering ordinance (sec. 409) and the separation and event-plan ordinance (secs. 411-412) from January 31, 2021…Tulsa City Council (adopted Jan. 13, 2021) and Mayor G.T. BynumTulsa, OklahomaCityJan. 13, 20212021 Q12021 Q2Emergency declarationCapacity limitFace-covering requirementEvents and venuesPrimary source read
Ex. SC-033Executive Order No. 2021-12Modifying and Amending Emergency MeasuresGovernor Henry McMasterSouth CarolinaStateMar. 5, 20212021 Q12021 Q2Emergency declarationTelework mandateOtherPrimary source read
Ex. WI-040Wis. Stat. ch. 323, Emergency Management (323.10 declaration by governor; 323.12 powers and duties of the governor; 323.28 penalties)Codified authority for the Governor's emergency declarations and the DHS face-covering orders (323.12(4)(b)); 60-day limit; legislative…Wisconsin Legislature (codified statute)WisconsinStateMar. 1, 20202020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3Emergency declarationOtherPrimary source read
Ex. DUT-ND-00829 U.S.C. 654 (2020 ed.)Duties of employers and employees (the general duty clause)Congress (Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970, Pub. L. 91-596, sec. 5, 84 Stat. 1593), administered by OSHA, U.S. Department of Labor (Bismarck Area Office, Region 8)United States (applicable in North Dakota, a federal-OSHA jurisdiction without an approved State plan)FederalDec. 29, 19702020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3Standing dutyWorkplace rulesStanding dutyPrimary source read
Ex. MET-CLT-037Second and Revised Amended Proclamation (adopting EO 215)Second and Revised Amended Proclamation of the Chairman and Mecklenburg County Board of CommissionersChair, Board of County Commissioners, in consultation with the Public Health Director and the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Emergency Management DirectorMecklenburg CountyCountyJune 1, 20212021 Q22021 Q3Emergency declarationFace-covering requirementWorkplace rulesPrimary source read
Ex. DUT-AK-008COVID-19 FAQ From AKOSH Consultation and Training TeamCOVID-19 FAQ (AKOSH Consultation and Training)AKOSH Consultation and Training Team, Labor Standards and Safety Division, Alaska Department of Labor and Workforce DevelopmentAlaskaStateMay 27, 20202020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3Standing dutyWorkplace rulesStanding dutyPrimary source read
Ex. DUT-MS-015Miss. Code Ann. § 45-17-7Local civil emergencies: officer's powers after proclamation (closing of retail liquor stores; discontinuance of sales; 'such other orders…Legislature of Mississippi (Mississippi Code of 1972, Title 45, ch. 17, Local Civil Emergencies); the chief administrative officer of every municipality as the officer empoweredMississippiState2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3Standing dutyBusiness closureCurfew and hoursAlcohol and barsStanding dutyOtherPrimary source read
Ex. MET-MSY-062Proclamation Number 11 CLS 2021 (recorded Conveyance Book 3455, page 952)Promulgation of Revised COVID-19 Mitigation Measures: emergency and measures continued; masks on public transportation; masks encouraged in…Parish President Cynthia Lee ShengParish of Jefferson, Louisiana (unincorporated)CountyJune 23, 20212021 Q22021 Q3Emergency declarationFace-covering requirementOtherPrimary source read

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