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Proclamation by the Governor: State of Emergency (COVID-19)

Proclamation declaring a state public health emergency; alternative standards of care

Governor Kay Ivey · Alabama (State)

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Jurisdiction
Alabama
Level
State
Authority
Alabama Emergency Management Act of 1955, Ala. Code §§ 31-9-1 et seq., § 31-9-8
Issued
2020-03-13 Mar. 13, 2020
Effective
2020-03-13
End
2021-07-06 11:59 p.m. (terminated by proclamation, Ex. AL-079), after sixty-day extensions of May 8 (to July 11, 2020), July 2 (to Sept. 9), Aug. 27 (to Nov. 8), Nov. 5 (to Jan. 7, 2021), Dec. 9 (to Mar. 8), Mar. 4 (to May 7) and May 3, 2021 (to July 6, 2021) (read as 2021-07-06)
In force
Mar. 13, 2020 to July 6, 2021
Quarters
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
Limitation types
Emergency declarationHealth care orders
Addressees
  • state agencies
  • health care facilities and professionals
  • the public
Functions reached
  • OP predicate for every State order
  • HC standards of care
  • CB
Collection
Alabama AL

Operative words

I, Kay Ivey, Governor of the State of Alabama, on the recommendation of the State Health Officer and pursuant to relevant provisions of the Alabama Emergency Management Act of 1955, as amended, Ala. Code §§ 31-9-1 et seq., do hereby declare that a state public health emergency exists in the State of Alabama.... Health care facilities that have invoked their emergency operation plans in response to this public health emergency may implement the 'alternative standards of care' plans provided therein, and those alternative standards of care are declared to be the state-approved standard of care in health care facilities

Enforcement

Ala. Code § 31-9-8 (sixty-day duration unless extended); § 31-9-13 (orders under the Act have force of law); § 31-9-22 (violation of an order under the Act: fine of not more than $500 or imprisonment) as recited in later proclamations (Ex. AL-026 § I)

Notes

Predicate only under T9(b); every State Health Officer order and every suspension of licensure, notarization, meeting, procurement and eviction law rests on it. Its termination date (July 6, 2021) is fixed by Ex. AL-079; it was re-declared August 13, 2021 (Ex. AL-052).

Retrieval note

Scanned; read by WinRT OCR. Governor's own copy at governor.alabama.gov/assets/2020/03/2020-03-13-Initial-COVID-19-SOE.pdf is the same scan.

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