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Ex. MET-SDF-043 Order Confirmed from a secondary source

Executive Order declaring a local state of emergency (signed March 13, 2020; presumably No. 2020-001)

Declaration of a state of emergency in Louisville Metro; cancellation of all Metro-hosted or Metro-sponsored events

Mayor Greg Fischer · Louisville/Jefferson County Metro Government, Kentucky (City)

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Jurisdiction
Louisville/Jefferson County Metro Government, Kentucky · Louisville and Lexington · Kentucky
Level
City
Authority
KRS 39B.070; KRS 67C.105
Issued
2020-03-13 Mar. 13, 2020
Effective
2020-03-13
End
extended to May 10, 2020 by Executive Order 2020-002 (Mar. 24, 2020); later extensions not verified (read as 2020-05-10)
In force
Mar. 13, 2020 to May 10, 2020
Quarters
2020 Q2
Limitation types
Emergency declarationEvents and venues
Addressees
  • Metro Government agencies
  • event sponsors and attendees
Functions reached
  • MK events
  • EV events
  • predicate
Collection
Louisville and Lexington MET-SDF

Operative words

(as described in Ex. MET-SDF-024:) The Mayor's original executive order, signed March 13, cancelled all Metro hosted or sponsored events.

Enforcement

cancellation of Metro events

Notes

Predicate for Exs. MET-SDF-023 to -027; the Metro Council's Resolution 049-2020 recites that the Mayor 'declared states of emergency' (Ex. MET-SDF-002).

Retrieval note

Existence, date and gist confirmed from Metro Government's own release of Mar. 24, 2020 (Ex. MET-SDF-024) and Resolution 049-2020 (Ex. MET-SDF-002); the order's text was not found (no Wayback capture at the parallel URL executive_order_2020-001_executed.pdf).

A record of The COVID Project. The instrument's text is the source's; the summary fields are The COVID Project's reading of it. Not legal advice.