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Executive Order No. 7H

Protection of Public Health and Safety During COVID-19 Pandemic and Response - Restrictions on Workplaces for Non-Essential Businesses, Coordinated Response Effort ('Stay Safe, Stay Home')

Governor Ned Lamont; Department of Economic and Community Development (binding essential-business guidance) · Connecticut (State)

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Jurisdiction
Connecticut
Level
State
Authority
Conn. Gen. Stat. sections 19a-131a and 28-9(b); section 28-8a (municipal orders) displaced by s.2
Issued
2020-03-20 Mar. 20, 2020
Effective
2020-03-23 8:00 p.m. (read as 2020-03-23)
End
Section 1 through Apr. 22, 2020; extended through June 20, 2020 by EO 7PP s.1(b) (offices excepted from May 20) and 'for the duration of the public health and civil preparedness emergency' by EO 7ZZ s.10 (June 16, 2020); superseded by EO 11A (Apr. 19, 2021), whose sections 1-2 were repealed by EO 12B effective 11:59 p.m. May 20, 2021. Section 2 (municipal preemption) for the duration. (read as 2021-06-30)
In force
Mar. 23, 2020 to June 30, 2021
Quarters
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q2
Limitation types
Stay-at-homeBusiness closureTelework mandateWorkplace rules
Addressees
  • all businesses and not-for-profit entities in the State
  • non-essential businesses
  • DECD
  • municipal chief executive officers
Functions reached
  • OF/OP office premises closed to in-person work (all non-essential employers)
  • SF sales floor (non-essential retail)
  • TELE telework mandate for every business
  • CB customer base (public directed to stay home)
  • SC suppliers (non-essential vendors closed)
  • MK events
Collection
Connecticut CT

Operative words

Effective on March 23, 2020 at 8:00 p.m. and through April 22, 2020, unless earlier modified, extended, or terminated by me, all businesses and not-for-profit entities in the state shall employ, to the maximum extent possible, any telecommuting or work from home procedures that they can safely employ. Non-essential businesses or not-for-profit entities shall reduce their in-person workforces at any workplace locations by 100% not later than March 23, 2020 at 8:00 p.m. Any essential business or entity providing essential goods, services or functions shall not be subject to these in-person restrictions. Not later than 8 p.m. on March 22, 2020, the Department of Economic and Community Development ('DECD') shall issue lawfully binding guidance about which businesses are essential.

Enforcement

Conn. Gen. Stat. section 28-22; DECD essential-business determinations; s.2 bars conflicting municipal orders and any municipal shelter-in-place or travel ban without DESPP permission

Notes

Essential list in s.1 names health care including dentists and home health, pharmaceutical and medical-device manufacturing, utilities, telecommunications, airports, manufacturing including food processing and the defense industrial base, grocery and big-box retail with groceries, pharmacies, gas stations, food and beverage retail and restaurants for takeout, trash, mail and shipping, news media, legal and accounting services, banks and insurance, construction, pest control and landscaping, logistics and technology vendors, child care. Every business not listed was closed to in-person work until reopened by Sector Rules.

Retrieval note

The paradigm instrument for T2: an order to the public and to every business limiting commerce and group meetings; the telework clause binds essential businesses as well.

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