The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Alaska
- Level
- State
- Authority
- 18 AAC 31 (Alaska Food Code) and COVID-19 Health Mandate 003 (Ex. AK-005), both recited
- Issued
- 2020-03-17 Mar. 17, 2020
- Effective
- 2020-03 (guidance) (read as 2020-03-17)
- End
- guidance; superseded in substance by Mandate 016 Attachment F (Apr. 24, 2020) and the May 22, 2020 advisory documents (read as 2020-04-24)
- In force
- Mar. 17, 2020 to Apr. 24, 2020
- Quarters
- 2020 Q2
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Business closureCapacity limitWorkplace rulesOperating condition
- Addressees
- specified businesses: food establishments (restaurants, counter service, labor camps, seafood galleys, institutions)
- Character
- recommendation only
- Collection
- Standing duties: Alaska DUT-AK
Operative words
it is important to follow current food safety standards and the Health Mandate (PDF) issued by the Governor on March 17, 2020... Remove seating. Currently under the Health Mandate (PDF) this is not allowed... The Health Mandate (PDF) requires that no more than five members of the public at one time are allowed for picking up their food or beverage orders.
Penalty
None in the guidance; the mandate it invokes carried the cease-operations order and AS 11.41.250 recital, and the Food Code carries 18 AAC 31.905
What it required
Recorded exactly: the DEC page is guidance ('Prevention Recommendations'; 'should'; 'encouraged'; 'Ensure'), and its mandatory sentences attribute the command to two instruments that carried it, Health Mandate 003 ('this is not allowed'; 'requires that no more than five members of the public') and the Food Code ('the current food safety rule requires workers wash their hands whenever they touch their eyes, nose, or mouth'; 'Alaska requires that food workers use a barrier such as tongs, gloves, or another utensil'); it told operators that 'Employee health policies should prohibit food workers from working in food establishments while sick' and that symptomatic workers 'should not return to work until they are symptom-free'.
Retrieval noteIts legal effect is that of the instruments it incorporates: Health Mandate 003 (Ex. AK-005) and 18 AAC 31 (DUT-AK-011, DUT-AK-012). DEC also archived grocery-store guidance (May 2020) and farmers'-market guidance (Apr. 2020) at dec.alaska.gov/eh/fss (not saved).