The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Illinois
- Level
- State
- Authority
- Illinois Emergency Management Agency Act, 20 ILCS 3305
- Issued
- 2025-10-14 Oct. 14, 2025
- Effective
- standing (read as 2025-10-14)
- End
- standing
- In force
- Standing since Oct. 14, 2025 (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
- Emergency declarationStanding duty
- Addressees
- the Governor (filing duty); every person and business bound by the orders from the moment of filing
- Character
- statutory duty
- Collection
- Standing duties: Illinois DUT-IL
Operative words
upon the declaration of a disaster by the Governor as is described in Section 7 the provision relating to the effective date of any rule, regulation, order or amendment issued under this Act and during the state of disaster is abrogated, and the rule, regulation, order or amendment shall become effective immediately upon being filed with the Secretary of State
Penalty
none stated in the section
What it required
Every executive order issued under the Act during the COVID-19 disaster took legal effect immediately on filing with the Secretary of State; the orders were published in the Illinois Register (e.g., EO 2020-61 at 44 Ill. Reg. 17833, cited in Fox Fire Tavern ¶ 41).
Retrieval noteRecited in every Illinois COVID-19 executive order's enforcement clause. The Wayback banner appears at the head of the rendered page.