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
- 2020-11-23 Nov. 23, 2020
- Effective
- 2020-11-25 12:01 a.m. (indoor dining reduction effective 2020-12-14 12:01 a.m.) (read as 2020-11-25)
- End
- 'through December 31, 2020, or until the date to which the COVID-19 public health emergency is extended, whichever is later'; superseded in part by MO 2020-126, 2020-127 and 2021-038 (read as 2021-03-31)
- In force
- Nov. 25, 2020 to Mar. 31, 2021
- Quarters
- 2020 Q42021 Q1
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Telework mandateCapacity limitGathering capCurfew and hoursAlcohol and barsEvents and venuesWorkplace rules
- Addressees
- non-essential non-retail businesses
- restaurants and licensed food establishments
- houses of worship
- gyms, private trainers and recreation centers
- the public (social gatherings)
- Functions reached
- OF telework strongly encouraged
- BA alcohol service ends 10:00 p.m.
- DR indoor dining to twenty-five percent Dec. 14
- PE live entertainment paused
- GATH ten indoors, twenty-five outdoors
- WS worship fifty
- CL indoor group fitness classes suspended
- Collection
- District of Columbia DC
Operative words
Section IV.1. of Mayor's Order 2020-103 is modified to strongly encourage continued telework.... Restaurants and other licensed food establishments may continue to operate for patrons until midnight, but alcohol sales, service and consumption (excluding carry-out and delivery) must end at 10:00 p.m.... The indoor occupancy of restaurants is hereby reduced from fifty percent (50%) to twenty-five percent (25%) as of 12:01 a.m. on Monday, December 14, 2020... The live entertainment pilot is hereby paused.... The number of persons allowed to be together at an outdoor mass gathering... is reduced from fifty (50) to twenty-five (25) persons... [an indoor gathering] cannot exceed ten (10) persons.... The maximum number of persons attending an indoor service at a house of worship at any one time is hereby reduced from one hundred (100) to fifty (50) persons... Gyms, private trainers, and other businesses and recreation centers must suspend all indoor group exercise classes.
Enforcement
D.C. Official Code 7-2307 penalties including civil fines or summary suspension or revocation of licenses; Communicable and Preventable Diseases Act penalties and injunctive relief reserved (sec. VIII)
Notes
The winter 2020-21 re-tightening order; ABRA implemented the alcohol hours (Ex. DC-078)
Retrieval noteScanned PDF (4 pp.); read by OCR.