{"id":"SC-038","kind":"order","level":"city","jurisdiction":"City of Columbia; City of Charleston; City of Greenville; Richland County; Charleston County; City of Myrtle Beach; Horry County; Town of Lexington; City of North Myrtle Beach (principal local instruments)","state":"SC","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"city and county councils (emergency ordinances under S.C. Code §§ 4-9-130 and 5-7-250)","authority":"S.C. Code § 4-9-130 (county emergency ordinances, effective immediately, expiring the sixty-first day); § 5-7-250 (municipal emergency ordinances); Home Rule Act","instrument":"Local stay-at-home ordinances (Columbia and Charleston, adopted Mar. 26, 2020, effective before the State\u0027s Home or Work Order of Apr. 7) and local face-covering ordinances (Greenville from June 22-23, 2020; Charleston from July 1, 2020; Columbia, Richland County, Charleston County, Myrtle Beach and Horry County from July 2020), renewed every sixty days","title":"Emergency ordinances requiring face coverings in retail, grocery, pharmacy and food-service settings; municipal stay-at-home ordinances","dateIssued":"2020-03-26","effective":"stay-at-home Mar. 26-29, 2020 (superseded by EO 2020-21 Apr. 7); masks late June / July 2020","end":"Municipal general-public mask mandates invalidated by EO 2021-23 § 2(D) (May 11, 2021); Town of Lexington dropped its rule Mar. 5, 2021 and North Myrtle Beach its restaurant rule Mar. 11, 2021; Columbia extended its rule Mar. 16, 2021; Richland County\u0027s rule not enforced from Sept. 2, 2021 (SC-042 n.2)","startDate":"2020-03-26","endDate":"2021-05-11","quarters":["2020Q2","2020Q3","2020Q4","2021Q1","2021Q2"],"types":["STAY","MASK","EMP"],"addressees":["the public and retail, grocery, pharmacy and food-service employers within each jurisdiction"],"clause":"","enforcement":"Civil infractions (Richland County\u0027s 2021 form: $25 per person, $100 per business, each day a separate offense); municipal penalties","functions":["SF sales floor","DR dining room","SL salons","CB customers under mask condition","HR employee screening and PPE"],"notes":"Existence and the State\u0027s treatment of these ordinances are verified from primary State instruments: EO 2020-50 recites that the Governor \u0027encouraged counties and municipalities of this State to enact or implement appropriate and narrowly tailored emergency ordinances... requiring individuals to wear face coverings\u0027; EO 2021-12 § 2(G) preserved them; EO 2021-23 § 2(D) declared \u0027any remaining mandates issued by counties, municipalities, or other political subdivisions of this State related to Face Coverings\u0027 invalid and preempted.","sourceUrl":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_in_South_Carolina","snapshot":"","fileExists":false,"fileBytes":0,"grade":"secondary","character":"","description":"","collection":"SC","url":"/library/SC-038","exhibitUrl":null,"citation":"city and county councils (emergency ordinances under S.C. Code §§ 4-9-130 and 5-7-250), Local stay-at-home ordinances (Columbia and Charleston, adopted Mar. 26, 2020, effective before the State\u0027s Home or Work Order of Apr. 7) and local face-covering ordinances (Greenville from June 22-23, 2020; Charleston from July 1, 2020; Columbia, Richland County, Charleston County, Myrtle Beach and Horry County from July 2020), renewed every sixty days (Ex. SC-038)","stateName":"South Carolina","related":["SC-042"]}