The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- West Virginia
- Level
- State
- Authority
- Office of the Governor, West Virginia Strong -- The Comeback, Guidance for West Virginia Small Businesses (Apr. 28, 2020; updated July 8, 2020)
- Issued
- 2020-04-28 Apr. 28, 2020
- Effective
- 2020-05-04 (with EO 32-20 § 2); updated July 8, 2020 to recite EO 50-20 (read as 2020-05-04)
- End
- Framework terminated 12:01 a.m. Apr. 20, 2021 (EO 12-21; Ex. WV-063) (read as 2021-04-20)
- In force
- May 4, 2020 to Apr. 20, 2021
- Quarters
- 2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q2
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Telework mandateWorkplace rulesOperating condition
- Addressees
- specified businesses: small businesses of ten or fewer employees reopened under EO 32-20 § 2; consulted by fitness centers under Ex. DUT-WV-019 ('should also consult the Guidance for West Virginia Small Businesses')
- Character
- recommendation only
- Collection
- Standing duties: West Virginia DUT-WV
Operative words
small businesses of ten or fewer employees should consider adopting rules and regulations... Per Executive Order 50-20, all individuals over the age of 9 are required to use face coverings... when in confined, indoor spaces... Require PPE, specifically face coverings and gloves to the maximum extent possible, for all employees who will interact with a customer.
Penalty
None stated in the document; enforcement of EO 32-20's conditions 'by State and local law enforcement and by state and local regulatory and/or licensing bodies' (EO 9-20 para. 7)
What it required
Recorded exactly: the document's own verbs are advisory ('should consider adopting rules and regulations'; 'Employers should consider the following guidelines'; 'the employer should consider additional precautionary measures'), listing daily symptom screening, removal of symptomatic employees, written policies on 'Social distancing and protective equipment; Temperature checks; Testing, isolating, and contact tracing; Sanitation,' cleaning 'at least every two hours,' contact tracing with notice to the local health department, telework 'to the greatest extent possible,' occupancy limits and PPE for customer-facing employees; its legal effect comes from EO 32-20 § 2, which let small businesses 'continue to operate, but must ensure that proper social distancing and hygiene practices are maintained, and must limit occupancy by the public... to no more than two (2) individual members of the public per 1,000 square feet' (Ex. WV-026), and from EO 50-20, whose face-covering requirement the document recites as 'required.'
Retrieval noteThe Wayback capture of the Apr. 28, 2020 URL nearest the requested date is the July 8, 2020 revision (the file was updated in place); the exhibit was renamed to carry the revision date. The document distinguishes its own recommendations ('should') from the Governor's order ('required... pursuant to the Governor's Executive Order 50-20'), which is the distinction this record preserves.