The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Seminole County, Florida · Orlando · Florida
- Level
- County
- Authority
- Seminole County Code secs. 72.6(b)(1) and 72.12; Fla. Stat. 125.69
- Issued
- 2020-03-27 Mar. 27, 2020
- Effective
- 2020-03-30 12:00 a.m. (read as 2020-03-30)
- End
- 'throughout the Local State of Emergency... unless earlier rescinded'; overtaken by State EO 20-91 (Apr. 3, 2020) and replaced by EO 2020-020 (May 15, 2020, Phase 1 distancing; rescinded June 4, 2020, Ex. MET-ORL-030) (read as 2020-04-03)
- In force
- Mar. 30, 2020 to Apr. 3, 2020
- Quarters
- 2020 Q2
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Capacity limitGathering capWorkplace rules
- Addressees
- all businesses in Seminole County
- all individuals in Seminole County
- Functions reached
- SF/DR/SL premises capped at 30 percent of fire-code occupancy
- EMP six-foot spacing, meetings and trainings of ten, checkout monitoring
- GATH social gatherings of ten
- LG lodging uses capped at 30 percent
- Collection
- Orlando MET-ORL
Operative words
Section 1. Minimum Standards for Businesses. All businesses in Seminole County may remain open under the following conditions: a) All employees and patrons must practice social distancing by staying at least six (6) feet apart. b) Group meeting, training sizes must be limited to ten (10) people or less. c) Limit occupancy to 30% of the maximum allowable capacity under the fire code, for non-residential, non-medical, and lodging uses. d) Checkout points and staging areas, including storefronts, must be monitored for social distancing requirements by means of marking floors or similar actions to maintain six (6) feet distance between patrons and employees. Section 2. Minimum Standards for Individuals. Social gatherings must be limited to no more than ten (10) persons.
Enforcement
Sec. 3: 'monetary fines up to per occurrence, in accordance with Section 72.12, Seminole County Code, and Section 125.69, Florida Statutes (2019). Repeat violations could result in mandatory closure pursuant to Section 72.6(b)(1), Seminole County Code'; enforceable by county or municipal law enforcement, code enforcement and emergency management officials
Notes
A county capacity order (30 percent of fire-code occupancy for non-residential, non-medical and lodging uses) six days before the State's stay-at-home order; sec. 4 exempts employees and patrons of first response, government, health care, veterinarian, shelter, child care, utility, food preparation, construction and transit agencies.
Retrieval noteSignature day handwritten (27th per the recital in EO 2020-015, Ex. MET-ORL-057: 'on March 27, 2020, Executive Order 2020-006 was executed').