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Ex. KS-008 Order Primary source read

Executive Order 20-15

Establishing the Kansas Essential Function Framework for COVID-19 response efforts

Governor Laura Kelly · Kansas (State)

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Jurisdiction
Kansas
Level
State
Authority
K.S.A. 48-924, 48-925
Issued
2020-03-24 Mar. 24, 2020
Effective
2020-03-24
End
Superseded by EO 20-16 (Mar. 30, 2020) as to substance; KEFF list carried into EO 20-16 para. 9 and EO 20-29 para. 7 (read as 2020-03-30)
In force
Mar. 24, 2020 to Mar. 30, 2020
Quarters
2020 Q2
Limitation types
Stay-at-homeBusiness closureTelework mandate
Addressees
  • local health officers and governing bodies
  • businesses seeking essential-function exemptions
Functions reached
  • all functions (defines which commerce may continue under local stay-home orders)
  • SC supply chains
  • PF manufacturing of essential equipment
  • OP offices
Collection
Kansas KS

Operative words

1. This order supersedes and overrides the provisions of any local 'stay home' or similar order that fails to exempt the Kansas Essential Functions Framework ('KEFF') essential functions listed in paragraph 11.... 3. All local 'stay home' or similar orders prohibiting citizens from leaving their homes in order to slow the spread of COVID-19 must follow the KEFF established in this order... 11. Local issuing authorities must grant--and do not have the discretion to deny--exemptions from the restrictions of any local 'stay home' or similar order to requesting companies or other organizations for the performance of the following essential functions: [KEFF 100 Connect; 200 Distribute; 300 Manage; 400 Supply]

Enforcement

Binding on local issuing authorities; K.S.A. 48-939.

Notes

KEFF 400 Supply includes agriculture, food, chemicals, metals, housing (rental property, hotels, real estate services), IT, defense, research; KEFF 300 Manage includes construction of roads and buildings, banking, insurance, medical care, legal services.

Retrieval note

Quotations from the Register text (KS-006).