The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Connecticut
- Level
- State
- Authority
- Conn. Gen. Stat. sections 19a-131a and 28-9
- Issued
- 2020-04-01 Apr. 1, 2020
- Effective
- 2020-04-03 (Safe Stores rules upon each retailer's first opening on Apr. 3) (read as 2020-04-03)
- End
- Section 1 superseded May 20, 2020 by the Sector Rules for Retail and Malls (EO 7PP s.1(c)); s.2 (insurance grace period) 60 days; s.11 (non-judicial tax sales) suspended until resumed by EO 9C (read as 2020-05-20)
- In force
- Apr. 3, 2020 to May 20, 2020
- Quarters
- 2020 Q2
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Business closureWorkplace rulesOther
- Addressees
- every retail establishment in the State
- insurers
- liquor permittees
- taxpayers
- municipal tax collectors
- Functions reached
- SF sales floor (occupancy limits, distancing, cleaning under the Safe Stores rules)
- IN insurance (60-day premium grace period, s.2)
- CL non-judicial tax sales suspended (s.11)
- OP tax deadlines
- Collection
- Connecticut CT
Operative words
Effective upon the opening of each retail establishment for the first time on April 3, 2020, every retail establishment in the State of Connecticut shall take additional protective measures to reduce the risk of transmission of COVID-19 between and among customers, employees, and other persons such as delivery drivers or maintenance people. The Commissioner of Economic and Community Development, in consultation with the Commissioner of Public Health, shall issue mandatory statewide rules prescribing such additional protective measures no later than 11:59 p.m. on April 1, 2020. Such rules shall be mandatory throughout the state and shall supersede and preempt any current or future municipal order
Enforcement
Conn. Gen. Stat. section 28-22; DECD mandatory rules
Notes
Section 2 imposed a 60-day grace period for premium payments and barred cancellations and non-renewals for nonpayment, implementing Insurance Department Bulletin IC-40 (CT-063).