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Ex. DUT-NE-029 Standing duty Primary source read

Directed Health Measure Order 2020-NEHD-002 (Phase II) (cross-reference to Ex. NE-013; not re-saved)

Directed Health Measure Order 2020-NEHD-002 (Phase II): occupancy, distancing and employer-housing screening conditions

Nebraska DHHS, Chief Medical Officer / Director of Public Health · Nebraska (Northeast Nebraska district; the Phase II text was issued statewide in district orders) (State)

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The record

Jurisdiction
Nebraska (Northeast Nebraska district; the Phase II text was issued statewide in district orders) · Nebraska
Level
State
Authority
Neb. Rev. Stat. §§ 71-502 and 81-601; 173 NAC 6 (recited)
Issued
2020-05-29 May 29, 2020
Effective
2020-06-01 12:00 a.m. (read as 2020-06-01)
End
2020-06-30 11:59 p.m. (Phase III from June 22 for 89 counties) (read as 2020-06-30)
In force
June 1, 2020 to June 30, 2020
Quarters
2020 Q2
Limitation types
Capacity limitGathering capFace-covering requirementTravel and quarantineWorkplace rulesQuarantine and isolationOperating condition
Addressees
  • specified businesses; employers providing housing; persons arriving from abroad; persons generally
Character
order operating condition
Collection
Standing duties: Nebraska DUT-NE

Operative words

Restaurants, bars, taverns... shall be restricted to no more than fifty percent (50%) of the rated occupancy maximum at a time.... Any employer required by law to provide housing to an employee or worker and who provides congregate or shared housing to employees or workers, must, at minimum, (1) post signage... (3) perform daily verbal screening and temperature checks

Penalty

'Failure to comply with this Order will result in legal action for enforcement by civil and/or criminal remedies'

What it required

Reopening in Phase II was conditioned on 50 percent occupancy and six-foot party separation in restaurants and bars, mask use in salons, barbershops, massage and tattoo establishments ('shall require the use of masks'), 25-patron or 25 percent caps in gyms, plan approval for venues of 500, a fourteen-day home quarantine for international arrivals, and signage, sanitation and 'daily verbal screening and temperature checks' by employers providing congregate housing.

Retrieval note

The 'shall,' 'must' and 'restricted to' clauses were read in the saved exhibit's text layer.

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