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Ex. ECO-B-123 Order Primary source read

Director's Order that Reopens Facilities Providing Child Care Services, with Exceptions

Director's Order that Reopens Facilities Providing Child Care Services, with Exceptions (rescinding the March 24, 2020 closure order; employee facial coverings; distancing)

Ohio Department of Health (Director Amy Acton, MD, MPH) · Ohio (State)

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The record

Jurisdiction
Ohio
Level
State
Authority
R.C. 3701.13 ('make special orders... for preventing the spread of contagious or infectious diseases')
Issued
2020-05-29 May 29, 2020
Effective
May 31, 2020 (read as 2020-05-31)
End
11:59 p.m. July 1, 2020 (read as 2020-07-01)
In force
May 31, 2020 to July 1, 2020
Quarters
2020 Q22020 Q3
Limitation types
Business closureFace-covering requirementSchools and child careWorkplace rules
Addressees
  • all facilities providing child care services licensed by ODJFS or ODE
  • Head Start programs
  • businesses and operations
Functions reached
  • WF (child care closed Mar. 24 - May 31, 2020; conditions thereafter)
  • EMP employee face coverings
  • CB
Collection
Workforce, schools and child care ECO-B

Operative words

'2. Facilities providing child care services to reopen. All facilities providing child care services licensed by the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services (ODJFS) are permitted to reopen within the State so long as all safety standards are met.... All other facilities providing child care services in the State are to remain closed, unless specifically permitted to be open in a separate Director of Health order.' '4. Facial Coverings (Masks).... Businesses must require all employees to wear facial coverings, except for one of the following reasons...' '5. Prior Director of Health Order. The Director of Health Order signed March 24, 2020 that closed facilities providing child care services is rescinded.' 'This Order shall remain in full force and effect until 11:59 p.m. on July 1, 2020.'

Enforcement

R.C. 3701.352 ('[n]o person shall violate any rule... or any order the director... issues'); R.C. 3701.99 (misdemeanor of the second degree)

Notes

Primary proof, by recital, of the March 24, 2020 ODH order that closed Ohio child care except Temporary Pandemic Child Care (Ex. ECO-B-125).

Retrieval note

Image scan; pages 1, 2 and 10 read visually; signed May 29, 2020.