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Mayor's Order 2020-035

District Government Preparations for the Coronavirus (COVID-19)

Mayor Muriel Bowser · District of Columbia (State)

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Jurisdiction
District of Columbia
Level
State
Authority
D.C. Home Rule Act sec. 422, D.C. Official Code 1-204.22
Issued
2020-02-28 Feb. 28, 2020
Effective
2020-02-28 (immediately) (read as 2020-02-28)
End
Superseded in practice by the emergency declarations of March 11, 2020 (read as 2020-03-11)
In force
Feb. 28, 2020 to Mar. 11, 2020
Limitation types
Emergency declaration
Addressees
  • District agencies
  • District employees
Functions reached
  • OF predicate for the emergency chain
  • WF leave rules for the District workforce
Collection
District of Columbia DC

Operative words

The District's Emergency Operations Center ("EOC") shall be activated... All District agencies shall review and update their Continuity of Operations (COOP) plans... The City Administrator shall establish inter-agency working groups that focus on... Medical quarantines and isolations... District government employees who take leave relating to COVID-19 shall be entitled to use any accrued leave whether or not they sought pre-approval

Enforcement

Internal directive to District agencies; no penalty clause

Notes

Predicate only: the first COVID-19 instrument of the District government; establishes the EOC activation and the quarantine working group that the March 11 declarations built on

Retrieval note

Scanned PDF; read by OCR.