The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- District of Columbia
- Level
- State
- Authority
- D.C. Home Rule Act sec. 422; D.C. Acts 23-328 and 23-411; D.C. Official Code 7-2304, 7-2304.01, 7-131 et seq.
- Issued
- 2020-11-06 Nov. 6, 2020
- Effective
- 2020-11-09 12:01 a.m. (read as 2020-11-09)
- End
- 'through December 31, 2020, or until the date to which the state of emergency is extended'; continued and modified by MO 2021-038 sec. XIII (vaccinated exemption, Mar. 17, 2021); not in force as a mandate after the May 21, 2021 lifting (MO 2021-069; verified_secondary) (read as 2021-06-30)
- In force
- Nov. 9, 2020 to June 30, 2021
- Quarters
- 2020 Q42021 Q12021 Q2
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Travel and quarantineWorkplace rulesQuarantine and isolation
- Addressees
- visitors from high-risk States
- residents returning from non-essential travel
- hotels and institutions hosting visitors
- employers
- Functions reached
- TV inbound travel and conventions
- LG hotel guests
- WF returning employees
- CB visitors
- Collection
- District of Columbia DC
Operative words
[Visitors traveling from high-risk States must obtain a negative test within 72 hours before travel; those staying more than three days must test again three to five days after arrival]... Visitors who cannot or do not provide such proof must self-quarantine for fourteen (14) days after arrival in the District.... [Residents returning from non-essential travel to high-risk States must quarantine fourteen days or test three to five days after return]... The requirement to self-quarantine for fourteen (14) days or to obtain a negative test upon return from travel shall not apply to residents performing essential work... This Order supersedes Mayor's Order 2020-081
Enforcement
Hotels and institutions may impose additional rules; the District reserves Communicable and Preventable Diseases Act civil and criminal penalties and injunctive relief (sec. VI)
Notes
Recites that mass gatherings remain 'currently defined as gatherings of over fifty (50) persons'; Maryland and Virginia exempt; the DC Health travel guidance of Dec. 14, 2020 (Ex. DC-050) implements this order
Retrieval noteScanned PDF (5 pp.); read by OCR. The bracketed passages paraphrase OCR text whose line breaks are uncertain; the quoted sentences are verbatim.