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Exhibit	Instrument	Issuer	Jurisdiction	Issued	Quarters	Limitations	Grade
Ex. DUT-GA-008	29 U.S.C. section 654Duties of employers and employees (the general duty clause)	Congress (Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970, Pub. L. 91-596, section 5, 84 Stat. 1590, 1593)	United States (applies directly in Georgia, which has no State occupational-safety plan for private employers)Federal	Dec. 29, 1970	2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3	Standing dutyWorkplace rulesStanding duty	Primary source read
Ex. DUT-GA-018	ACCG, State Laws Impacting Georgia Counties during the 2020 Public Health Emergency (Mar. 16, 2020; updated Mar. 17, 2020)State Laws Impacting Georgia Counties during the 2020 Public Health Emergency	Association County Commissioners of Georgia (ACCG), the statewide association of Georgia's 159 county governments	GeorgiaState	Mar. 17, 2020	2020 Q2	Standing dutyBusiness closureTravel and quarantineQuarantine and isolationStanding duty	Confirmed from a secondary source
Ex. MET-ATL-008	Declaration of Local Emergency (COVID-19)Declaration of Local Emergency	Mayor Van R. Johnson II (attest Mark Massey, Clerk of Council)	City of Savannah, GeorgiaCity	Mar. 19, 2020	2020 Q2	Emergency declarationBusiness closureTelework mandateCapacity limitAlcohol and barsEvents and venuesOther	Primary source read
Ex. MET-ATL-022	Executive Order No. 20-001Executive Order declaring a public health and economic state of emergency in DeKalb County (COVID-19)	Chief Executive Officer Michael L. Thurmond	DeKalb County, GeorgiaCounty	Mar. 23, 2020	2020 Q2	Emergency declarationBusiness closureTelework mandateCapacity limitGathering capCurfew and hoursAlcohol and barsWorkplace rulesQuarantine and isolation	Primary source read
Ex. MET-ATL-001	Executive Order 2020-21Declaring an emergency; directing all individuals living in the City of Atlanta to stay at their place of residence; ceasing non-essential…	Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms	City of Atlanta, GeorgiaCity	Mar. 23, 2020	2020 Q2	Stay-at-homeBusiness closureTelework mandateGathering capTravel and quarantine	Primary source read
Ex. MET-ATL-009	First Amended Declaration of Local Emergency ('Shelter at Home')First Amended Declaration of Local Emergency, 'Shelter at Home'	Mayor Van R. Johnson II	City of Savannah, GeorgiaCity	Mar. 24, 2020	2020 Q2	Stay-at-homeBusiness closureTelework mandateGathering capTravel and quarantine	Primary source read
Ex. MET-ATL-030	Declaration of Emergency in Cobb CountyDeclaration of Emergency in Cobb County (COVID-19)	Michael H. Boyce, Chairman, Cobb County Board of Commissioners	Cobb County, Georgia (unincorporated area)County	Mar. 24, 2020	2020 Q2	Emergency declarationStay-at-homeBusiness closureTelework mandateGathering capCurfew and hoursAlcohol and barsWorkplace rulesQuarantine and isolation	Primary source read
Ex. MET-ATL-054	Executive Order 2020-22Re-declaring the emergency; all individuals directed to shelter at their place of residence; all businesses to cease non-essential…	Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms	City of Atlanta, GeorgiaCity	Mar. 26, 2020	2020 Q2	Stay-at-homeBusiness closureTelework mandateGathering capTravel and quarantine	Primary source read
Ex. GA-010	Executive Order 04.02.20.01Executive Order to Ensure a Safe & Healthy Georgia (statewide shelter in place)	Governor Brian P. Kemp	GeorgiaState	Apr. 2, 2020	2020 Q2	Stay-at-homeBusiness closureTelework mandateGathering capTravel and quarantineHealth care ordersAlcohol and barsWorkplace rulesQuarantine and isolation	Primary source read
Ex. SEC-16-054	Executive Order 04.02.20.01Providing additional guidance for the Public Health State of Emergency (Shelter in Place)	Governor Brian P. Kemp	GeorgiaState	Apr. 2, 2020	2020 Q2	Stay-at-homeBusiness closureTelework mandateGathering cap	Primary source read
Ex. GA-012	Executive Order 04.08.20.02Renewing the Public Health State of Emergency to assist with the state's response to COVID-19 (and extending the shelter-in-place orders to…	Governor Brian P. Kemp	GeorgiaState	Apr. 8, 2020	2020 Q2	Emergency declarationStay-at-homeBusiness closureTelework mandateGathering cap	Primary source read
Ex. GA-017	Executive Order 04.20.20.01Providing flexibility for healthcare practices, moving certain businesses to minimum operations, and providing for emergency response	Governor Brian P. Kemp	GeorgiaState	Apr. 20, 2020	2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q2	Business closureTelework mandateCapacity limitGathering capHealth care ordersWorkplace rules	Primary source read
Ex. MET-ATL-053	MARTA COVID-19 essential-service reduction (bus service reduced to 41 routes effective Apr. 20, 2020) and employee telework/hiring freeze (Mar. 17, 2020), as posted on the agency's coronavirus pageMARTA coronavirus page (captured May 1, 2020): 'Effective April 20th, MARTA is reducing bus service to 41 routes to prioritize essential…	MARTA (General Manager/CEO Jeffrey Parker)	Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (Fulton, DeKalb and Clayton Counties and the City of Atlanta)Sector regulator	Apr. 20, 2020	2020 Q22020 Q3	Telework mandateOther	Primary source read
Ex. GA-018	Executive Order 04.23.20.02Providing guidance for reviving a healthy Georgia in response to COVID-19 ('Reviving a Healthy Georgia')	Governor Brian P. Kemp	GeorgiaState	Apr. 23, 2020	2020 Q2	Stay-at-homeBusiness closureTelework mandateCapacity limitGathering capTravel and quarantineHealth care ordersAlcohol and barsEvents and venuesWorkplace rules	Primary source read
Ex. MET-ATL-046	Recommended Guidelines: Reopening Phases (revised 7/10/2020)City of Atlanta Recommended Guidelines, Reopening Phases: 'Based on the current available data, Atlanta is in Phase 1'	Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms (Advisory Council on Reopening Atlanta)	City of Atlanta, GeorgiaCity	July 10, 2020	2020 Q32020 Q42021 Q1	Stay-at-homeBusiness closureTelework mandateFace-covering requirementEvents and venues	Primary source read
Ex. DUT-GA-012	Senate Bill 359 (2020), Georgia COVID-19 Pandemic Business Safety ActAn Act to amend Title 51 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to torts, so as to provide for certain immunities from…	General Assembly of Georgia (Senators Hufstetler, Tillery, Strickland, Albers, Kirkpatrick and others); approved by Governor Brian P. Kemp, August 5, 2020	GeorgiaState	Aug. 5, 2020	2020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3	Standing dutyStanding dutyOperating condition	Primary source read
Ex. DUT-GA-015	DPH Administrative Order, Long-Term Care Facilities Reopening GuidanceState of Georgia Department of Public Health Administrative Order: Long-Term Care Facilities Reopening Guidance	Georgia Department of Public Health (Kathleen E. Toomey, M.D., M.P.H., Commissioner and State Health Officer)	GeorgiaState	Sept. 15, 2020	2020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q2	Standing dutyFace-covering requirementHealth care ordersWorkplace rulesVaccination or testingQuarantine and isolationOperating condition	Primary source read
Ex. MET-ATL-047	Recommended Guidelines: Reopening Phases (revised 03/18/2021)City of Atlanta Recommended Guidelines, Reopening Phases: 'Based on the current available data, Atlanta is in Phase 2' (Easing, Yellow Zone)	Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms (Advisory Council on Reopening Atlanta)	City of Atlanta, GeorgiaCity	Mar. 18, 2021	2021 Q12021 Q2	Telework mandateCapacity limitFace-covering requirementEvents and venues	Primary source read
Ex. DUT-GA-013	House Bill 112 (2021)An Act to amend an Act relating to torts to provide certain immunities from liability claims regarding COVID-19, approved August 5, 2020…	General Assembly of Georgia (Representatives Kelley, Cooper, Carpenter, Newton, Hawkins and others); approved by Governor Brian P. Kemp (May 2021)	GeorgiaState	July 1, 2021	2021 Q3	Standing dutyStanding dutyOperating condition	Primary source read
Ex. DUT-GA-017	Arbor Management Services, LLC v. Hendrix, No. A22A0068 (Ga. Ct. App. June 22, 2022)Opinion reversing the denial of a motion to dismiss: negligence claims for a senior-living facility's March 2020 infection-control conduct…	Court of Appeals of Georgia (Doyle, P.J., with Reese, J., and Senior Appellate Judge Phipps)	Georgia (Court of Appeals of Georgia, Third Division)Court	June 22, 2022		Standing dutyStanding dutyOperating condition	Primary source read
Ex. DUT-GA-001	O.C.G.A. section 31-12-4Isolation and segregation of diseased persons; quarantine	General Assembly of Georgia (Code 1933, section 88-1204, enacted by Ga. L. 1964, p. 499, section 1; amended by Ga. L. 2002, p. 1386, section 9)	GeorgiaState		2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3	Standing dutyQuarantine and isolationStanding duty	Primary source read
Ex. DUT-GA-002	O.C.G.A. section 31-12-3Power to require immunization and other preventive measures	General Assembly of Georgia (Code 1933, section 88-1203, enacted by Ga. L. 1964, p. 499, section 1; amended 2002)	GeorgiaState		2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3	Standing dutyVaccination or testingQuarantine and isolationStanding duty	Primary source read
Ex. DUT-GA-003	O.C.G.A. section 31-2A-4Obligation to safeguard and promote health of people of the state	General Assembly of Georgia (Title 31, Chapter 2A, Department of Public Health; enacted 2011 on the creation of the Department, carrying forward Code 1933, section 88-108)	GeorgiaState		2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3	Standing dutyBusiness closureQuarantine and isolationStanding duty	Primary source read
Ex. DUT-GA-004	O.C.G.A. sections 31-5-8 and 31-5-9Penalty for violations of the provisions of this title; Injunctions for enjoining violations of the provisions of this title; injunctions to…	General Assembly of Georgia (Code 1933, section 88-301, enacted by Ga. L. 1964, p. 499, section 1)	GeorgiaState		2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3	Standing dutyStanding duty	Primary source read
Ex. DUT-GA-005	Ga. Comp. R. & Regs. r. 511-9-1-.01 to 511-9-1-.05Isolation and Quarantine (Scope and Purpose; Definitions; Public Health Control Measures; Powers of the County Boards of Health to Implement…	Georgia Department of Public Health (rules filed with the Secretary of State; Ga. Comp. R. & Regs. Chapter 511-9-1)	GeorgiaState		2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3	Standing dutyBusiness closureGathering capTravel and quarantineQuarantine and isolationStanding duty	Primary source read

Congress (Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970, Pub. L. 91-596, section 5, 84 Stat. 1590, 1593), 29 U.S.C. section 654 (standing) (Ex. DUT-GA-008)
Association County Commissioners of Georgia (ACCG), the statewide association of Georgia's 159 county governments, ACCG, State Laws Impacting Georgia Counties during the 2020 Public Health Emergency (Mar. 16, 2020; updated Mar. 17, 2020) (Ex. DUT-GA-018)
Mayor Van R. Johnson II (attest Mark Massey, Clerk of Council), Declaration of Local Emergency (COVID-19) (Mar. 19, 2020) (Ex. MET-ATL-008)
Chief Executive Officer Michael L. Thurmond, Executive Order No. 20-001 (Mar. 23, 2020) (Ex. MET-ATL-022)
Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, Executive Order 2020-21 (Mar. 23, 2020) (Ex. MET-ATL-001)
Mayor Van R. Johnson II, First Amended Declaration of Local Emergency ('Shelter at Home') (Mar. 24, 2020) (Ex. MET-ATL-009)
Michael H. Boyce, Chairman, Cobb County Board of Commissioners, Declaration of Emergency in Cobb County (Mar. 24, 2020) (Ex. MET-ATL-030)
Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, Executive Order 2020-22 (Mar. 26, 2020) (Ex. MET-ATL-054)
Governor Brian P. Kemp, Executive Order 04.02.20.01 (Apr. 2, 2020) (Ex. GA-010)
Governor Brian P. Kemp, Executive Order 04.02.20.01 (Apr. 2, 2020) (Ex. SEC-16-054)
Governor Brian P. Kemp, Executive Order 04.08.20.02 (Apr. 8, 2020) (Ex. GA-012)
Governor Brian P. Kemp, Executive Order 04.20.20.01 (Apr. 20, 2020) (Ex. GA-017)
MARTA (General Manager/CEO Jeffrey Parker), MARTA COVID-19 essential-service reduction (bus service reduced to 41 routes effective Apr. 20, 2020) and employee telework/hiring freeze (Mar. 17, 2020), as posted on the agency's coronavirus page (Ex. MET-ATL-053)
Governor Brian P. Kemp, Executive Order 04.23.20.02 (Apr. 23, 2020) (Ex. GA-018)
Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms (Advisory Council on Reopening Atlanta), Recommended Guidelines: Reopening Phases (revised 7/10/2020) (July 10, 2020) (Ex. MET-ATL-046)
General Assembly of Georgia (Senators Hufstetler, Tillery, Strickland, Albers, Kirkpatrick and others); approved by Governor Brian P. Kemp, August 5, 2020, Senate Bill 359 (2020), Georgia COVID-19 Pandemic Business Safety Act (Aug. 5, 2020) (Ex. DUT-GA-012)
Georgia Department of Public Health (Kathleen E. Toomey, M.D., M.P.H., Commissioner and State Health Officer), DPH Administrative Order, Long-Term Care Facilities Reopening Guidance (Sept. 15, 2020) (Ex. DUT-GA-015)
Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms (Advisory Council on Reopening Atlanta), Recommended Guidelines: Reopening Phases (revised 03/18/2021) (Mar. 18, 2021) (Ex. MET-ATL-047)
General Assembly of Georgia (Representatives Kelley, Cooper, Carpenter, Newton, Hawkins and others); approved by Governor Brian P. Kemp (May 2021), House Bill 112 (2021) (July 1, 2021) (Ex. DUT-GA-013)
Court of Appeals of Georgia (Doyle, P.J., with Reese, J., and Senior Appellate Judge Phipps), Arbor Management Services, LLC v. Hendrix, No. A22A0068 (Ga. Ct. App. June 22, 2022) (Ex. DUT-GA-017)
General Assembly of Georgia (Code 1933, section 88-1204, enacted by Ga. L. 1964, p. 499, section 1; amended by Ga. L. 2002, p. 1386, section 9), O.C.G.A. section 31-12-4 (standing) (Ex. DUT-GA-001)
General Assembly of Georgia (Code 1933, section 88-1203, enacted by Ga. L. 1964, p. 499, section 1; amended 2002), O.C.G.A. section 31-12-3 (standing) (Ex. DUT-GA-002)
General Assembly of Georgia (Title 31, Chapter 2A, Department of Public Health; enacted 2011 on the creation of the Department, carrying forward Code 1933, section 88-108), O.C.G.A. section 31-2A-4 (standing) (Ex. DUT-GA-003)
General Assembly of Georgia (Code 1933, section 88-301, enacted by Ga. L. 1964, p. 499, section 1), O.C.G.A. sections 31-5-8 and 31-5-9 (standing) (Ex. DUT-GA-004)
Georgia Department of Public Health (rules filed with the Secretary of State; Ga. Comp. R. & Regs. Chapter 511-9-1), Ga. Comp. R. & Regs. r. 511-9-1-.01 to 511-9-1-.05 (standing) (Ex. DUT-GA-005)

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