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Ex. AGY-ST-CORRECTIONS-EMA-GUARD-097 Order Primary source read

Executive Order 2020-53 (COVID-19)

Enhanced restrictions on price gouging, continued through May 15, 2020 (rescinding EO 2020-18)

Governor Gretchen Whitmer · Michigan (Governor); State level (State)

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Jurisdiction
Michigan (Governor); State level · Michigan
Level
State
Authority
MCL 30.403; MCL 10.31
Issued
2020-04-13 Apr. 13, 2020
Effective
2020-04-13 (immediately) (read as 2020-04-13)
End
2020-05-15 at 11:59 p.m.; continued by later orders through the summer of 2020 (read as 2020-05-15)
In force
Apr. 13, 2020 to May 15, 2020
Quarters
2020 Q2
Limitation types
Supply chainOther
Addressees
  • every person selling or reselling products in Michigan
Functions reached
  • SF
  • SC
  • CB
Collection
State corrections, emergency management and Guard AGY-ST-CORRECTIONS-EMA-GUARD

Operative words

1. A person must not resell a product in this state at a price that is grossly in excess of the purchase price at which the person acquired the product. 2. A person must not offer for sale or sell any product in this state at a price that is more than 20% higher than what the person offered or charged for that product as of March 9, 2020, unless the person demonstrates that the price increase is attributable to an increase in the cost of bringing the product to market or to an extraordinary discount in effect as of March 9, 2020.... 5. This order is effective immediately and continues through May 15, 2020 at 11:59 pm. 6. Executive Order 2020-18 is rescinded. 7. Consistent with MCL 10.33 and MCL 30.405(3), a willful violation of this order is a misdemeanor.

Enforcement

MCL 10.33; MCL 30.405(3) (misdemeanor)

Retrieval note

Recital refers to EO 2020-33 (Apr. 3, 2020), the intermediate price order.