The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Delaware
- Level
- State
- Authority
- 20 Del. C. ch. 31
- Issued
- 2020-03-21 Mar. 21, 2020
- Effective
- 2020-03-21 5:00 p.m. E.D.T. (issued 12:00 p.m.) (read as 2020-03-21)
- End
- 2020-05-22 5:00 p.m. E.D.T. (Seventeenth Modification struck and replaced it, Ex. DE-021 § A) (read as 2020-05-22)
- In force
- Mar. 21, 2020 to May 22, 2020
- Quarters
- 2020 Q2
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Business closureTravel and quarantineEvents and venues
- Addressees
- the public
- beach towns
- DNREC
- Functions reached
- CB beach-town customer base
- LG/TV coastal tourism
- AM beach vendors
- Collection
- Delaware DE
Operative words
Recited in the Fourth Modification: 'to close all Delaware beaches, except to persons using the beaches for exercise or to walk their dogs, subject to certain precautions recommended by the CDC on COVID-19, which became effective as of 5:00 p.m. E.D.T.' (Ex. DE-005 at 2); the Third Modification's own text (4 pages, read) orders the closure in those terms.
Enforcement
20 Del. C. §§ 3115(b), 3116(9), 3122, 3125
Notes
Beach-town commerce (Rehoboth, Dewey, Bethany, Fenwick, Lewes) closed for the spring season; reopened May 22, 2020 with masks on boardwalks (DE-021).