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- Jurisdiction
- City of Vancouver, Washington (Clark County) · Portland · Oregon
- Level
- City
- Authority
- RCW ch. 38.52; VMC ch. 2.12
- Issued
- 2020-03-16 Mar. 16, 2020
- Effective
- Various (Mar. 2020 onward) (read as 2020-03-16)
- End
- EO 2020-17: emergency purchasing and budget authority 'through the end of the declared emergency' (end of the Vancouver civil emergency not shown in this set) (read as 2021-09-30)
- In force
- Mar. 16, 2020 to Sept. 30, 2021
- Quarters
- 2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Emergency declarationBusiness closureTelework mandateEvents and venuesCourts and public officesWorkplace rulesOther
- Addressees
- all persons and businesses in Vancouver subject to the listed orders
- Functions reached
- EMER predicate (emergency continuing into 2021)
- EVT, CLOSE, CRT, TELE, OTHER as itemized
- Collection
- Portland MET-PDX
Operative words
No. 2020-17 Extends the City Manager's Emergency Purchasing Authority and Emergency Budget Authority through the end of the declared emergency. No. 2020-16 Extends the duration of Emergency Order 2020-09. No. 2020-15 Lifting Closure of Playgrounds. No. 2020-14 Extends the duration of specific sections of Emergency Orders 2020-03, 2020-05, 2020-09, 2020-11, 2020-13; Lifting suspension of park shelter rentals and authorizing the use of parklets. No. 2020-13 Extends the duration of specific sections of prior Emergency Orders. No. 2020-12 Permitting Community Gardens to reopen... No. 2020-11 Extending the duration of Emergency Order Nos. 2020-02 through 2020-09; Suspending park shelter rentals; Closing community gardens, playgrounds, water features, Water Resource Education Center; Extending utility ratepayer assistance. No. 2020-10 Suspending daily financial deposits as permitted by RCW 43.09.240. No 2020-09 Regarding Landlord entries into residential rental property... No 2020-08 Regarding foreclosures, evictions, and rental property inspections; Adding a defense from residential foreclosures on private mortgages; adding a defense from eviction for small businesses (with less than 50 employees)... No 2020-07 Permitting of public farmers markets; Utility ratepayer assistance; Funding of H20 account; temporary suspension of the Business License Fee and Business Licensee Fee Surcharge. No 2020-06 Temporary closure to public of Vancouver Police Department buildings... No. 2020-05 Suspending collection of on-street parking fees; suspending specified parking enforcement activities; waiving parking citations after March 13, 2020. No. 2020-04 Regarding infectious disease control within City workforce; Implementing temporary telecommute policy; temporary expansion of employment leave policies; temporary amendment of City hiring practices. No. 2020-03 Closing specified City buildings; Amending City Council schedules; Postponing annual State of the City event; Providing authorization to City Manager to enter into contracts per VMC 3.05.030 and access City emergency reserve fund. No. 2020-02 Canceling City-permitted public events; Closing specified facilities; Suspending specific classes; implementing City employment policy 407. Declaration of Civil Emergency.
Enforcement
Notes
The City's own inventory of sixteen numbered emergency orders plus the Declaration. Only EO 2020-06 and 2020-08 are in the set in their own text (MET-PDX-053, -052). Dates of EO 2020-12, -15, -16 and -17 are not on the page.
Retrieval noteAuthority's own index; each listed order's existence and gist is verified from it, the texts (other than 2020-06 and 2020-08) are not. The file-name date (2020-03-16) is the Council ratification date of the Declaration, not the capture date.