{"id":"FL-047","kind":"order","level":"state","jurisdiction":"Florida","state":"FL","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"Governor Ron DeSantis","authority":"ch. 252, Fla. Stat., including ss. 252.36(5)(b), (g) and (h)","instrument":"Executive Order 20-244","title":"Phase 3; Right to Work; Business Certainty; Suspension of Fines","dateIssued":"2020-09-25","effective":"2020-09-25 (immediate; filed with the Department of State 4:06 p.m.)","end":"Extended by EO 20-297 (Nov. 25, 2020) for the duration of EO 20-52; ss. 2-3 superseded by EO 21-102 (May 3, 2021); lapsed with the emergency June 26, 2021","startDate":"2020-09-25","endDate":"2021-06-30","quarters":["2020Q3","2020Q4","2021Q1","2021Q2"],"types":["CAP","OTHER"],"addressees":["all businesses","restaurants","local governments"],"clause":"Section 1. Phase 3. This order supersedes and eliminates any and all restrictions of Executive Orders 20-112, 20-123 and 20-139, as well as Executive Orders 20-192, 20-214 and 20-223, except as modified herein. Section 2. Right to Work and Operate a Business. No COVID-19 emergency ordinance may prevent an individual from working or from operating a business. This preemption is consistent with Executive Order 20-92. Section 3. Restaurants.... A. Restaurants, including any establishment with a food service license, may not be limited by a COVID-19 emergency order by any local government to less than fifty percent (50%) of their indoor capacity. If a restaurant is limited to less than one hundred percent (100%) of its indoor capacity, such COVID-19 emergency order must on its face satisfy the following: i. quantify the economic impact of each limitation or requirement on those restaurants; and ii. explain why each limitation or requirement is necessary for public health. B. Nothing in this order preempts or supersedes a non-COVID-19 municipal or county order. Section 4. Suspension of COVID-19-related Individual Fines and Penalties. This order, consistent with Executive Order 20-92, suspends the collection of fines and penalties associated with COVID-19 enforced upon individuals. Section 5. This order is effective immediately.","enforcement":"Preemption; suspension of individual fines; local business-directed enforcement continued","functions":["end of State capacity limits on every sector","local capacity orders capped at 50 percent floor for restaurants","MASK local mask orders continued against businesses, not individuals"],"notes":"The instrument that ended Florida\u0027s general State business restrictions. Scanned; read as rendered image (3 pp.). Copy from the DEM website.","sourceUrl":"https://www.floridadisaster.org/globalassets/executive-orders/covid-19/eo-20-244-phase-3.pdf","snapshot":"","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":690821,"grade":"primary","character":"","description":"","collection":"FL","url":"/library/FL-047","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/FL-047","citation":"Governor Ron DeSantis, Executive Order 20-244 (Sept. 25, 2020) (Ex. FL-047)","stateName":"Florida","related":["DUT-FL-004","DUT-FL-008","SEC-03-GM-004","SEC-03-GM-011","SEC-03-GM-012","SEC-04-GM-005","SEC-04-GM-008","SEC-04-GM-029","SEC-04-GM-036","SEC-04-GM-037","SEC-05-GM-001","SEC-06-GM-011"]}