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Ex. ECO-C-041 Order Primary source read

Executive Order 20-14 (Eleventh Supplemental Emergency Declaration)

Staying at Home, Reducing Gatherings, Certain Retail Business Closures and Further Quarantine Provisions

Governor Gina M. Raimondo · Rhode Island (State)

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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
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)