The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Alabama
- Level
- State
- Authority
- Ala. Code § 22-2-14 (recited); the State Health Officer's Stay at Home Order of April 3, 2020 (Ex. AL-013)
- Issued
- 2020-04-05 Apr. 5, 2020
- Effective
- 2020-04-05
- End
- 2020-04-30 5:00 p.m. (the Stay at Home Order's term, Ex. AL-013; the § 22-2-14 enforceability it states continued under the Safer at Home orders) (read as 2020-04-30)
- In force
- Apr. 5, 2020 to Apr. 30, 2020
- Quarters
- 2020 Q2
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Stay-at-homeBusiness closureCapacity limitHealth care ordersStanding dutyOperating condition
- Addressees
- persons generally; employers and employees (work outside the home limited to listed businesses and three categories of activity); specified businesses (essential retailers: occupancy, posting, enforcement, congregation); health care providers (postponement)
- Character
- agency position statement
- Collection
- Standing duties: Alabama DUT-AL
Operative words
The order requires stores to limit occupancy to no more than 50 percent of the normal occupancy load... to post this 'emergency maximum occupancy rate' in a conspicuous place, and to enforce this requirement.... Alabama Code §22-2-14 provides that knowingly violating or refusing to obey or comply with this order is a Class C misdemeanor punishable by a fine of up to $500.00.
Penalty
Ala. Code § 22-2-14: Class C misdemeanor, fine up to $500, each day a separate offense (as stated)
What it required
The Attorney General told law enforcement that 'every person is ordered to stay at his or her place of residence except as necessary to perform an essential activity,' that a person 'may not leave home to work' at an unlisted business except for the three categories of work-related activity, that essential retailers must cap occupancy at 50 percent, post the rate and 'enforce this requirement,' that retailers 'may not knowingly allow customers or patrons to congregate within six feet of one another,' that all non-emergency dental, medical and surgical procedures 'be postponed,' and that knowing violation is a Class C misdemeanor with each day a separate offense. Character as recorded: agency_position_statement (release, FAQ, memorandum or statement; order_penalty layer).
Retrieval noteFour pages with Attachment 1 (the essential-businesses list). Category 7 and category 6 together: the State's chief law officer restates the retailer conditions of Ex. AL-013 as duties the retailer must itself 'enforce' and states the criminal consequence.