The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Connecticut
- Level
- State
- Authority
- Conn. Gen. Stat. sections 19a-131a and 28-9; Regs. Conn. State Agencies 19-13-B1 and B2 and Conn. Gen. Stat. 19a-206 modified for enforcement
- Issued
- 2020-05-18 May 18, 2020
- Effective
- 2020-05-20 12:01 a.m. (read as 2020-05-20)
- End
- Sections 1, 4 and 6 superseded Apr. 19, 2021 by EO 11A; s.2 superseded by EO 11A s.2; gathering extension to June 20, 2020 amended by 7TT/7ZZ (read as 2021-04-19)
- In force
- May 20, 2020 to Apr. 19, 2021
- Quarters
- 2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q2
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Business closureTelework mandateCapacity limitGathering capSchools and child careAlcohol and barsWorkplace rules
- Addressees
- restaurants (outdoor only)
- offices
- retail and malls
- museums and zoos
- outdoor recreation and general business
- day camps, resident camps, summer school
- local health directors and municipal designees
- Functions reached
- DR outdoor dining only at 50 percent
- OF offices at 50 percent with work-from-home
- SF retail at 50 percent
- FC gyms and theaters closed to June 20
- GATH five persons to June 20
- EC day camps delayed to June 22; resident camps prohibited
- IN summer school delayed to July 6
- Collection
- Connecticut CT
Operative words
pursuant to rules issued by the Department of Economic and Community Development for each of various business sectors (individually and collectively, the 'Sector Rules'), which Sector Rules shall constitute legally binding guidance... Executive Order No. 7H, Section 1 is extended through June 20, 2020, with the exception that offices shall be permitted to reopen pursuant to the Sector Rules for Offices... Section 19-13-B1 of the Regulations of Connecticut State Agencies is modified to include in the definition of public nuisance a violation of the Sector Rules... authorize a local or district health director to order the closure of Public Health Facilities until such time as the local or district health director determines that the Public Health Facility has abated the nuisance by coming into compliance with the Sector Rules.
Enforcement
Closure orders by local and district health directors and municipal designees (s.2); Conn. Gen. Stat. section 28-22
Notes
Made every DECD Sector Rule legally binding and created the closure-order enforcement scheme that ran until May 20, 2021.