The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Rhode Island
- Level
- State
- Authority
- R.I. Gen. Laws tit. 30, ch. 15
- 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
- Emergency declarationStanding duty
- Addressees
- persons generally; every business and employer addressed by an executive order
- Character
- statutory authority
- Collection
- Standing duties: Rhode Island DUT-RI
Operative words
Issue executive orders, proclamations, and regulations and amend or rescind them. Executive orders, proclamations, and regulations, for the purposes of this chapter, have the force and effect of law.
Penalty
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-15-21 (Ex. DUT-RI-010); § 30-15-18 (read, not saved): 'It shall be the duty of every organization for disaster preparedness and response established pursuant to this chapter, and of the officers thereof, to execute and enforce such orders, rules, and regulations as may be made by the governor under authority of this chapter.'
What it required
Every executive order and regulation issued under the Emergency Management Act 'ha[s] the force and effect of law'; the one hundred and more supplemental emergency declarations in the Orders Library (Ex. RI-001 to RI-068) were law, not advice. Character as recorded: statutory_authority (enabling power; binds through the orders issued under it).