The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Rhode Island
- Level
- State
- Authority
- R.I. Gen. Laws ch. 30-15; title 23, ch. 8
- Issued
- 2020-03-28 Mar. 28, 2020
- Effective
- 2020-03-28 (retail closures Mar. 30, 2020) (read as 2020-03-28)
- End
- Apr. 13, 2020 unless renewed; renewed to May 8, 2020; stay-at-home lifted by EO 20-32 (May 9, 2020); out-of-State quarantine continued in modified form (read as 2020-04-13)
- In force
- Mar. 28, 2020 to Apr. 13, 2020
- Quarters
- 2020 Q2
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Stay-at-homeBusiness closureTelework mandateGathering capTravel and quarantineQuarantine and isolation
- Addressees
- all Rhode Island residents
- Rhode Island employers with employees who live in other States
- any person coming to Rhode Island from another State for a non-work-related purpose
- all non-critical retail businesses
- Functions reached
- CB
- WF (out-of-State employees ordered to telework or quarantine when not at work)
- SF
- GATH
- TV
- OP
- Collection
- Travel, gatherings, courts and public offices ECO-C
Operative words
All Rhode Island residents are required to stay home unless traveling to work, traveling for medical treatment or obtaining necessities... Any Rhode Island employer with employees who live in other states shall use all means available to enable these employees to telecommute... All gatherings of more than five (5) people in any public or private space... [are prohibited]... Effective Monday, March 30, 2020, all non-critical retail businesses shall cease in-person operations.... [Any person coming to Rhode Island from another] state for a non-work-related purpose must immediately self-quarantine for 14 days.
Enforcement
R.I. Gen. Laws § 30-15-9; National Guard checkpoints at the Connecticut line, airports and train stations (contemporaneous)