The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Prince George's County, Maryland · Washington suburbs · Maryland
- Level
- County
- Authority
- Md. Code Pub. Safety § 14-111; Subtitle 6 of the Prince George's County Code ('authority to issue rules and regulations as deemed necessary to control the situation')
- Issued
- 2021-10-04 Oct. 4, 2021
- Effective
- 2021-10-04 (post-period; amends the Q3 2021 requirement of EO 19-2021) (read as 2021-10-04)
- In force
- Oct. 4, 2021 (no end date recorded; counted as in force for 120 days)
- Limitation types
- Emergency declarationWorkplace rulesVaccination or testing
- Addressees
- County employees
- volunteers
- contractors
- Functions reached
- WF county workforce and contractors
- HR credentialing (vaccination evidence)
- CB (recital of the indoor mask orders reaching every public place)
- Collection
- Washington suburbs MET-DCM
Operative words
WHEREAS, the County previously issued the following emergency declarations: Executive Order Number 6-2020 dated March 16, 2020; Executive Order Number 7-2020 dated April 13, 2020; CR-31-2020 adopted May 11, 2020; Executive Order Number 8-2020 dated May 14, 2020; Executive Order Number 10-2020 dated May 28, 2020; CR-51-2020 adopted June 9, 2020; Executive Order Number 13-2020 dated June 12, 2020; Executive Order Number 15-2020 dated June 25, 2020 and CR-64-2020 adopted July 7, 2020; Executive Order Number 20-2020 dated September 3, 2020; CR-90-101 adopted September 15, 2020; CR-101-2020 adopted October 13, 2020; CR-125-2020 adopted November 17, 2020; and Executive Order 27-2020 dated December 15, 2020; CR-02-2021 adopted January 12, 2021; Executive Order 3-2021 dated January 26, 2021; CR-13-2021 adopted February 16, 2021; Executive Order 8-2021 adopted March 11, 2021; CR-33-2021 adopted March 30, 2021; CR-48-2021 adopted May 11, 2021; Executive Order 11-2021 adopted May 14, 2021; Executive Order 14-2021 dated May 26, 2021; Executive Order 17-2021 adopted June 28, 2021 (which amended Executive Order 14-2021); CR-77-2021 adopted July 6, 2021; Executive Order 18-2021 dated August 5, 2021; CR-80-2021 adopted September 10, 2021; and Executive Order 21-2021 dated September 30, 2021... WHEREAS, Executive Order No. 18-2021, issued on August 5, 2021, requires all persons over the age of five to wear a face covering indoors as a mitigation measure in all public places; and WHEREAS, on September 30, 2021, Executive Order No. 21-2021 expanded the face covering requirement to all persons over the age of two... A. Every Employee or Volunteer who is vaccinated must produce written evidence of vaccination. B. Every Employee or Volunteer who does not produce the evidence... must, on a weekly basis, provide... a COVID-19 diagnostic test that produced a negative result.
Enforcement
¶II.D: employees who do not comply 'shall be subject to' discipline
Notes
Post-period instrument saved for its recitals: the County's own dated chain of every emergency executive order and Council resolution from Mar. 16, 2020 to Sept. 30, 2021, and its confirmation that EO 18-2021 (Aug. 5, 2021) and EO 21-2021 (Sept. 30, 2021) imposed indoor face coverings in all public places during Q3 2021; also recites Sept. 30, 2021 metrics (96,892 cases; 1,629 deaths; 14.6 daily cases per 100,000).
Retrieval noteFile name carries the Wayback capture month (2021-12); the order is dated Oct. 4, 2021.