{"id":"MN-007","kind":"order","level":"state","jurisdiction":"Minnesota","state":"MN","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"Governor Tim Walz","authority":"Minn. Stat. secs. 12.21, subd. 3, 4.035, subd. 2","instrument":"Emergency Executive Order 20-16","title":"Directing Non-Hospital Entities to Inventory and Preserve Vital Medical Equipment During the COVID-19 Peacetime Emergency","dateIssued":"2020-03-23","effective":"2020-03-23 (inventory due Mar. 25, 2020)","end":"Para. 3 use restriction narrowed 11:59 p.m. May 10, 2020 (EO 20-51 para. 3); rescinded by EO 20-84 (Aug. 2020)","startDate":"2020-03-23","endDate":"2020-05-10","quarters":["2020Q2","2020Q3"],"types":["SUPPLY","HC"],"addressees":["any Minnesota business, nonprofit, or non-hospital health care facility, \u0027whether veterinary, dental, construction, research, institution of higher learning, or other\u0027"],"clause":"1. Any Minnesota business, nonprofit, or non-hospital health care facility, whether veterinary, dental, construction, research, institution of higher learning, or other, in possession of PPE, ventilators, respirators, or anesthesia machines... must undertake an inventory of such supplies no later than March 25, 2020.... 3. Any Minnesota business, nonprofit, or non-hospital health care facility must refrain from using any such consumable equipment other than for use in delivering critical health care services or essential services requiring such equipment, and must either donate it to a local coordinating entity or prepare for the possibility of being asked to donate or sell it for use by critical health care workers.","enforcement":"Emergency order with force of law under sec. 12.32; no separate penalty paragraph (sec. 12.45 general misdemeanor applies to willful violations of emergency orders)","functions":["SC PPE supply","PR procedures requiring PPE","JS job sites (construction PPE)","ST sterilization and infection control"],"notes":"A State allocation order on private inventories of N95s, gowns and gloves held by dental offices, contractors, laboratories and colleges.","sourceUrl":"https://www.leg.mn.gov/archive/execorders/20-16.pdf","snapshot":"","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":239118,"grade":"primary","character":"","description":"","collection":"MN","url":"/library/MN-007","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/MN-007","citation":"Governor Tim Walz, Emergency Executive Order 20-16 (Mar. 23, 2020) (Ex. MN-007)","stateName":"Minnesota","related":["MN-005","MN-006","MN-008","MN-002","MN-004","MN-003","MN-009","MN-001","MN-012","MN-013","MN-014","MN-017"]}