The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Missouri
- Level
- State
- Authority
- Legislative enactment; delegation of the police power to county commissions and county health center boards
- Issued
- 2019-08-28 Aug. 28, 2019
- Effective
- standing (read as 2019-08-28)
- End
- standing (read as 2021-09-30)
- In force
- Standing since Aug. 28, 2019 (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
- Business closureCapacity limitGathering capFace-covering requirementWorkplace rulesStanding duty
- Addressees
- persons generally; every firm, corporation and association (employers and owners or persons in control of premises within the county)
- Character
- order penalty
- Collection
- Standing duties: Missouri DUT-MO
Operative words
The county commissions and the county health center boards of the several counties may make and promulgate orders, ordinances, rules or regulations... as will tend to enhance the public health... Any person, firm, corporation or association which violates any of the orders or ordinances adopted, promulgated and published by such county commission is guilty of a misdemeanor
Penalty
misdemeanor; 'shall be prosecuted, tried and fined as otherwise provided by law' (§ 192.300.4)
What it required
Every person, firm, corporation or association must obey the public-health orders and ordinances of the county commission or county health center board (the vehicle for the St. Louis County, Jackson County, Boone County and other county orders in the library), on pain of a misdemeanor, with the county commission or county health board given 'full power and authority to initiate the prosecution.'
Retrieval noteRendered from the Revisor on Sept. 28, 2026 (508,325 bytes), showing the version effective June 15, 2021. H.B. 271 added subsection 5 ('Any orders, ordinances, rules, or regulations made and promulgated under the authority in this section shall comply with the provisions of section 67.265'), which is Ex. MO-021 and regulated the duration of local orders from June 15, 2021 without reaching back. RSMo 192.310 excepts cities of 75,000 or more with organized health departments (St. Louis, Kansas City, Springfield, Columbia, Independence) from sections 192.260 to 192.320; those cities issued their orders under their charters and ordinances. The Eastern District of Missouri described § 192.300 and § 192.290 as the statutes under which the plaintiffs in SH3 Health Consulting tested the County's power and found the challenge unlikely to succeed (Ex. DUT-MO-014 at 9-11).