{"id":"MS-040","kind":"order","level":"state","jurisdiction":"Mississippi (statewide hospital rule; Chickasaw, Claiborne, DeSoto, Forrest, Itawamba, Jackson, Lamar, Lee, Neshoba Counties)","state":"MS","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"Governor Tate Reeves","authority":"Miss. Code Ann. 33-15-11(c)(1), (c)(4), 33-15-31","instrument":"Executive Order 1527","title":"Hospitals must reserve 10 percent of capacity to perform elective procedures; face coverings and 10/50 gathering caps in nine counties","dateIssued":"2020-10-19","effective":"2020-10-21 08:00","end":"2020-11-11 08:00 as issued; county measures re-set and extended by EO 1530 to Dec. 11, 2020; hospital rule carried into EO 1535 to Mar. 3, 2021","startDate":"2020-10-21","endDate":"2020-11-11","quarters":["2020Q4"],"types":["HC","MASK","GATH"],"addressees":["health care facilities statewide","every person in the nine counties","businesses in the nine counties"],"clause":"Paragraph II of Executive Order 1525 is amended to add subsection (p) as follows: p. Hospital Capacity: In order to perform non-emergent, elective medical procedures and [surgeries, the healthcare facility must] reserve at least 10% of its hospital capacity for treatment of COVID-19 patients.... [In Chickasaw, Claiborne, DeSoto, Forrest,] Itawamba, Jackson, Lamar, Lee, and Neshoba Counties... Face Coverings: Every person shall wear a face covering, covering the nose and mouth, when inside a business, school, building or other indoor space open to the [public whenever it is not possible to maintain six feet of social] distancing from another person not in the same household... Public and private social gatherings and recreational activities shall be limited to groups of no more than 10 people in a single indoor space or groups of no more than 50 people in an outdoor space.","enforcement":"As in EO 1525 (Miss. Code Ann. 33-15-11(b)(5)-(6); 33-15-43)","functions":["SX elective procedures","IP capacity","SF masks (nine counties)","GATH 10/50"],"notes":"Ballotpedia: \u0027Facilities that cannot maintain this capacity will have to pause elective procedures.\u0027","sourceUrl":"https://www.sos.ms.gov/content/executiveorders/ExecutiveOrders/1527.pdf","snapshot":"https://web.archive.org/web/20201022184320/https://www.sos.ms.gov/content/executiveorders/ExecutiveOrders/1527.pdf","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":1184428,"grade":"primary","character":"","description":"","collection":"MS","url":"/library/MS-040","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/MS-040","citation":"Governor Tate Reeves, Executive Order 1527 (Oct. 19, 2020) (Ex. MS-040)","stateName":"Mississippi","related":["MS-041","MS-039","MS-042","MS-043","MS-044","MS-038","MS-045","MS-037","MS-046","MS-047","MS-036","MS-048"]}