The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Cobb County, Georgia (unincorporated area) · Atlanta · Georgia
- Level
- County
- Authority
- Cobb County Code §§ 34-2, 34-7 (chairman's declaration and emergency measures); Cobb & Douglas Board of Health closure authority recited
- Issued
- 2020-03-24 Mar. 24, 2020
- Effective
- 2020-03-24 (filed 6:27 p.m.); paragraph 3 restrictions from 2020-03-25 12:00 p.m. (read as 2020-03-24)
- End
- Declared to terminate Apr. 15, 2020 unless renewed; supplemented and extended to Apr. 24, 2020 by the Apr. 2, 2020 order (Ex. MET-ATL-032); enforcement of conflicting local orders suspended by Kemp EO 04.02.20.01 effective Apr. 3, 2020 (read as 2020-04-15)
- In force
- Mar. 24, 2020 to Apr. 15, 2020
- Quarters
- 2020 Q2
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Emergency declarationStay-at-homeBusiness closureTelework mandateGathering capCurfew and hoursAlcohol and barsWorkplace rulesQuarantine and isolation
- Addressees
- all businesses, establishments, corporations, non-profits and organizations in unincorporated Cobb County
- all individuals and families
- restaurants, breweries and bars
- Functions reached
- DR dining rooms
- BA bars
- GATH (10, distanced)
- CURF business hours 6 a.m.-9 p.m.
- STAY shelter in place
- QUAR symptomatic persons barred from public places
- OF telework encouraged
- EMP distancing duties on open businesses
- Collection
- Atlanta MET-ATL
Operative words
2. Consistent with Governor Kemp's Executive Order dated March 23, 2020... no business, establishment, corporation, non-profit corporation, or organization shall allow more than ten (10) persons to be gathered at a single location if such gathering requires persons to stand or to be seated within six (6) feet of any other person. 3. Beginning on March 25, 2020 at 12:00 pm...: (a) Any person showing symptoms recognized by the CDC as indicators of COVID-19 shall refrain from entering public buildings, restaurants, shops, public transportation facilities and all other areas where the public ingresses or egresses.... (c) All individuals and families are required to shelter in place consistent with this Declaration. (d) All businesses except 'Essential Businesses,' as defined below, shall have hours of operation beginning no earlier than 6:00 a.m. and ending no later than 9:00 p.m.... (f) All businesses and employers are encouraged, to the maximum extent possible, to provide employees with the means and equipment to perform their job functions remotely. (g) All businesses that remain open for use by the public must take the necessary steps to restrict in person contact and maintain a distance of 6 feet between individuals... (h) There shall be no dine-in service at any restaurant, brewery or bar. Such establishments shall only be open for take-out or delivery services.
Enforcement
Cobb County Code § 34-3 (law enforcement to enforce the chairman's emergency orders); Cobb & Douglas Board of Health 'authorized to mandate the closure of any business... not in compliance with this Declaration'
Notes
Essential Businesses defined in ¶ 4 (health care, government, utilities, telecommunications, airports and airlines, transportation including MARTA and rideshare, road construction, defense industrial base, financial services, delivery, manufacturing and construction supporting public health, food, pharmacies, lodging, home-office suppliers, repair and construction for businesses and homes, trash, bonding companies, legal services, mail, laundromats, janitorial, basic-needs providers, auto repair and gas, warehouses, funeral homes, storage, animal care, news media). Recites that 'several Cities within the borders of Cobb County have declared emergencies.'
Retrieval noteSeven-page scanned declaration; pages 1-4 read as rendered images. Fox 5 and MDJ reported the declaration ('orders residents to shelter in place').