The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Alabama
- Level
- State
- Authority
- Ala. Code § 22-2-2(4)
- Issued
- 2020-04-03 Apr. 3, 2020
- Effective
- 2020-04-04 5:00 p.m. (read as 2020-04-04)
- End
- 2020-04-30 5:00 p.m. (replaced by the Safer at Home Order, Ex. AL-017) (read as 2020-04-30)
- In force
- Apr. 4, 2020 to Apr. 30, 2020
- Quarters
- 2020 Q2
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Stay-at-homeBusiness closureTelework mandateCapacity limitGathering capSchools and child careHealth care ordersAlcohol and barsWorkplace rulesQuarantine and isolation
- Addressees
- every person in Alabama
- all businesses (essential businesses and operations defined)
- essential retailers
- entertainment venues, athletic facilities and close-contact providers (closed)
- schools and child care
- hospitals and long-term care facilities
- health care providers
- restaurants and bars
- persons who test positive
- counties and municipalities
- Functions reached
- CB customer base under stay-home
- SF sales floor (closures; 50 percent at essential retailers)
- OP/OF (work outside the home limited to essential operations and no-interaction work)
- WF (schools and child care closed; 14-day quarantine of positives)
- GATH
- DR
- BA
- PR
- SX
- VS
- SL
- FC
- PE
- TR travel (stay-home; beaches)
- Collection
- Alabama AL
Operative words
1. Effective Saturday, April 4, 2020, at 5:00 P.M., every person is ordered to stay at his or her place of residence except as necessary to perform any of the following 'essential activities'... e. To work. A person may leave his or her place of residence to perform work at 'essential businesses and operations' as defined in paragraph 2 below or to perform essential work-related activities as follows: (i) Work-related activities to maintain the value of a business... (ii) Work-related activities to enable people to work or shop remotely from their residences... or (iii) Work-related activities that do not require any regular interaction within six feet of another person.... 4. 'Essential businesses and operations' as defined in paragraph 2 shall take all reasonable steps, for employees and customers, to (a) avoid gatherings of 10 persons or more and (b) maintain a six-foot distance between persons as work duties permit... 6. Effective Saturday, April 4, 2020, at 5:00 P.M., all 'essential retailers'... shall comply with the following rules... a. Emergency maximum occupancy rate. Occupancy shall be limited to no more than 50 percent of the normal occupancy load as determined by the fire marshal.... 9. Effective immediately, any person who has tested positive for COVID-19... shall be quarantined to their place of residence for a period of 14 days... 14. Effective March 28, 2020 at 5:00 P.M., all dental, medical, or surgical procedures shall be postponed until further notice... 16. This Order shall remain in full force and effect until 5:00 P.M. on April 30, 2020. 17.... This Order also supersedes and preempts any county and municipal orders or ordinances, whenever adopted, that purport to impose less stringent COVID-19-related curfew or quarantine measures.
Enforcement
Ala. Code § 22-2-2(4); adopted by reference and made a municipal offense in Birmingham (Ex. AL-070 § 1(b), § 3: fine up to $500); penalty not recited in the State order itself
Notes
The paradigm instrument for T2: it ordered the public to stay home, limited travel and prohibited group meetings in terms. Paragraph 2 lists 21 categories of 'essential businesses and operations' (government, health care, infrastructure including hotels, manufacturing, agriculture, essential retailers, restaurants and bars for takeout, personal services including child care and laundries, media, education for distance learning, financial services, professional services including real estate and title, charities, construction, public services, defense, vendors, religious entities, CISA critical infrastructure, ADPH/AEMA designees, and their suppliers). Paragraph 7 allowed closed businesses to sell 'necessary supplies' by curbside, delivery or remotely.
Retrieval noteText-layer PDF read in full. The Governor's copy is https://governor.alabama.gov/assets/2020/04/Final-Statewide-Order-4.3.2020.pdf (bundled row line 25). This exhibit is the April 10 technical-revisions version; Ex. AL-015 explains the revisions.