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Public Health Emergency Order No. 2020-015

Public Health Emergency Order Locking Down the Navajo Nation for 57-Hours (for the Next Two Weekends) and Travel Advisory Outside of the Navajo Nation

Navajo Department of Health, Navajo Office of Environmental Health and Protection Program · Navajo Nation (Arizona, New Mexico, Utah) - tribal government (Tribal)

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Jurisdiction
Navajo Nation (Arizona, New Mexico, Utah) - tribal government
Level
Tribal
Authority
NNC Res. CO-50-14; CEM Res. 20-03-11
Issued
2020-06-16 June 16, 2020
Effective
2020-06-19 8:00 p.m. MDT (read as 2020-06-19)
End
2020-06-29 5:00 a.m. MDT (read as 2020-06-29)
In force
June 19, 2020 to June 29, 2020
Quarters
2020 Q2
Limitation types
Stay-at-homeBusiness closureTravel and quarantineCurfew and hours
Addressees
  • all individuals on the Navajo Nation
  • essential businesses including all stores, gas stations, restaurants and drive-through food establishments
  • hay and other vendors
Functions reached
  • SF sales floor closed (stores, gas stations, restaurants, drive-throughs)
  • DR dining and TO takeout closed during lockdowns
  • CB customer base
  • WF workforce
  • TR travel advisory outside the Nation
Collection
Tribal governments AGY-TRIBAL

Operative words

Essential Businesses, including all stores, gas stations, restaurants and drive-through food establishments shall be closed. Hay and all other vendors must cease operations for the duration of the Weekend Lockdown. This closure and cease operations requirement does not apply to Healthcare Operations, Essential Governmental Functions, or Essential Infrastructure... or to Food Cultivation operations. Essential Employees reporting to or from duty are exempted from the Weekend Lockdown but must carry official [identification].... NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that this Order shall take effect Friday, June 19, 2020 at 8:00 P.M. MDT, and shall remain in effect until Monday, June 29, 2020 at 5:00 A.M. MDT.

Enforcement

Paragraphs I-IX of PHEO 2020-004 incorporated; essential-employee identification requirement

Notes

Weekend lockdowns June 19-22 and June 26-29, 2020; the daily 8 p.m.-5 a.m. curfew continued between them