{"id":"MET-MSY-001","kind":"order","level":"city","jurisdiction":"City of New Orleans / Parish of Orleans, Louisiana","state":"LA","metro":"MSY","industry":"","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"Mayor LaToya Cantrell","authority":"La. R.S. 29:721 et seq. (Louisiana Homeland Security and Emergency Assistance and Disaster Act), La. R.S. 29:727; La. R.S. 40:1387; Home Rule Charter","instrument":"Mayoral Proclamation of a State of Emergency Due to COVID-19 (filed Civil District Court No. 2020-02449, Div. F-7)","title":"Mayoral Proclamation of a State of Emergency Due to COVID-19","dateIssued":"2020-03-11","effective":"2020-03-11 (filed 6:24 p.m.)","end":"Continuing through 2021-09-30 and beyond (recited as continuing in LC 21-05 of Aug. 19, 2021, Ex. 032, and as the predicate of the Oct. 29, 2021 NOHD guidelines, Ex. 031)","startDate":"2020-03-11","endDate":"2021-09-30","quarters":["2020Q2","2020Q3","2020Q4","2021Q1","2021Q2","2021Q3"],"types":["EMER"],"addressees":["all City departments, boards and agencies","the public","private property owners (commandeering power)"],"clause":"do hereby declare pursuant to La. R.S. 29:727 that due to the above-recited circumstances, a state of emergency exists in the City of New Orleans, warranting the use of all extraordinary measures appropriate to ensure public health, safety, welfare, and convenience.... The Emergency Authority is hereby empowered to suspend the provisions of any regulatory ordinance prescribing the procedures for conduct of local business... if strict compliance with the provisions of any ordinance, order, rule, or regulation would in any way prevent, hinder, or delay necessary action in coping with the emergency.","enforcement":"La. R.S. 29:727(G) (fine up to $500 or six months, recited in later proclamations); Superintendent of Police commands all peace officers under La. R.S. 40:1387","functions":["EMER predicate for every New Orleans order","OF City offices and agencies commandeered"],"notes":"Predicate instrument; declared before the first New Orleans death and two days after the first Louisiana case (Mar. 9, 2020). Four pages, filed in Civil District Court.","sourceUrl":"https://www.nola.gov/mayor/executive-orders/emergency-declarations/20200311-mayoral-proclamation-of-a-state-of-emergency-due-to-covid-19/","snapshot":"https://web.archive.org/web/20200317173250/https://www.nola.gov/mayor/executive-orders/emergency-declarations/20200311-mayoral-proclamation-of-a-state-of-emergency-due-to-covid-19/","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":553962,"grade":"primary","character":"","description":"","collection":"MET-MSY","url":"/library/MET-MSY-001","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/MET-MSY-001","citation":"Mayor LaToya Cantrell, Mayoral Proclamation of a State of Emergency Due to COVID-19 (filed Civil District Court No. 2020-02449, Div. F-7) (Mar. 11, 2020) (Ex. MET-MSY-001)","stateName":"Louisiana","related":["MET-MSY-002","MET-MSY-004","MET-MSY-005"]}