The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Connecticut
- Level
- State
- Authority
- Conn. Gen. Stat. sections 19a-131a and 28-9
- Issued
- 2020-03-19 Mar. 19, 2020
- Effective
- Section 2 immediately; section 3 Mar. 20, 2020 12:00 p.m.; section 4 Mar. 20, 2020 8:00 p.m. (read as 2020-03-20)
- End
- Section 4 (personal services) repealed June 1, 2020 for hair salons and barbershops (EO 7TT s.1) and June 17, 2020 for all others (EO 7ZZ s.6); section 2 (courts) extended by 9L and 10A, civil deadlines resumed Mar. 1, 2021, remainder expired May 20 and June 30, 2021 (EO 12B s.9); section 3 superseded Apr. 19, 2021 by EO 11B (read as 2021-06-30)
- In force
- Mar. 20, 2020 to June 30, 2021
- Quarters
- 2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q2
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Business closureHealth care ordersAlcohol and barsCourts and public offices
- Addressees
- Supreme, Appellate and Superior Courts and litigants
- barbers, hairdressers, cosmeticians, nail technicians, electrologists, estheticians, eyelash technicians, tattoo and piercing providers
- restaurant, cafe and tavern liquor permittees
- telehealth providers
- DSS
- Functions reached
- CT courts, clerks, recorders (deadlines and venue suspended)
- SL salon, barber, nail and spa services
- BA alcohol takeout with food
- TM telehealth
- CL closings and litigation-dependent transactions
- Collection
- Connecticut CT
Operative words
I hereby suspend, for the duration of this public health and civil preparedness emergency, unless earlier modified or terminated by me, all statutory (1) location or venue requirements; (2) time requirements, statutes of limitation or other limitations or deadlines relating to service of process, court proceedings or court filings; and (3) all time requirements or deadlines related to the Supreme, Appellate and Superior courts or their judicial officials to issue notices, hold court, hear matters and/or render decisions... Throughout the State, effective at 8:00 p.m. on March 20, 2020, the rendering of services by barbers, hairdressers and cosmeticians, nail technicians, electrologists, estheticians, eyelash technicians, and tattoo and piercing providers is prohibited in all public settings including, but not limited to, barbershops, beauty shops, hairdressing salons, nail salons, spas, kiosks, and tattoo or piercing establishments.
Enforcement
Conn. Gen. Stat. section 28-22; DPH Commissioner authorized to issue implementing orders (s.4); DCP implementing orders (s.3(b), CT-061)
Notes
Recital: 'in consultation with the Chief Court Administrator... there exists a compelling state interest that courts conduct only essential business'.