The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Alabama
- Level
- State
- Authority
- Code of Alabama 1975, § 22-2-14
- Effective
- standing
- End
- standing (read as 2021-09-30)
- In force
- Standing (a statutory duty; in force throughout the six quarters)
- Quarters
- 2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Standing duty
- Addressees
- persons generally (every natural and juridical person, including employers and operators of premises)
- Character
- order penalty
- Collection
- Standing duties: Alabama DUT-AL
Operative words
Any person who knowingly violates or fails or refuses to obey or comply with any rule or regulation adopted and promulgated by the State Board of Health of this state shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, shall be fined not less than $25.00 nor more than $500.00 and, if the violation... is a continuing one, each day's violation, or failure or refusal shall constitute a separate offense
Penalty
misdemeanor; fine of $25 to $500; each day's continuing violation a separate offense
What it required
Obedience to every rule of the State Board of Health, including the State Health Officer's COVID-19 orders once adopted as Emergency Rule 420-4-1-.13 ER on March 20, 2020 (Ex. AL-007), on pain of a misdemeanor conviction with each day of a continuing violation a separate offense.
Retrieval noteThe Attorney General's guidance of March 21, 2020 (Ex. DUT-AL-016) quotes the section in full and states that the March 20, 2020 order 'is now enforceable under Section 22-2-14'; the guidance of April 5, 2020 (Ex. DUT-AL-017) states that knowing violation of the Stay at Home Order 'is a Class C misdemeanor punishable by a fine of up to $500.00' and that 'each day's violation is a separate offense.' The penalty applied to the orders through their adoption as Board rules (Ex. AL-007) before the Governor added the Emergency Management Act penalty on July 15, 2020 (Ex. AL-026); both channels then ran together to April 9, 2021 (Safer Apart) and May 31, 2021 (last order, Ex. AL-051).