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Joint Public Health Order 2020-03 (Stay-at-Home)

Joint Public Health Order, Stay-at-Home, Order No. 2020-03

Summit County Health Officer Richard C. Bullough, the Summit County Council (5-0) and County Manager Thomas C. Fisher, in consultation with the Board of Health · Summit County, Utah (countywide, incorporated and unincorporated, including Park City) (County)

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Jurisdiction
Summit County, Utah (countywide, incorporated and unincorporated, including Park City) · Salt Lake City · Utah
Level
County
Authority
Utah Code 26A-1-114; Utah Code 17-50-302(1)(a)(ii); Summit County Code 5-4-6(A); Summit County Code of Health 1-1-10(b)
Issued
2020-03-25 Mar. 25, 2020
Effective
2020-03-27 12:01 a.m. (read as 2020-03-27)
End
2020-05-01 11:59 p.m.; rescinded and replaced May 1, 2020 by Joint PHO 2020-05 (read as 2020-05-01)
In force
Mar. 27, 2020 to May 1, 2020
Quarters
2020 Q2
Limitation types
Stay-at-homeBusiness closureTelework mandateGathering capTravel and quarantineWorkplace rules
Addressees
  • all individuals living within Summit County
  • all businesses with a facility in the County
  • visitors and non-resident homeowners
  • public transit riders
Functions reached
  • CB customer base confined to homes
  • SF non-essential premises closed (Minimum Basic Operations only)
  • OP telework compelled ('working from home')
  • GATH all gatherings of any number
  • TV travel prohibited except essential; visitors expelled
  • LG lodging (visitors directed home; non-resident owners told to stay away)
  • WF
Collection
Salt Lake City MET-SLC

Operative words

Section 2. Stay-at-Home Order. All individuals currently living within Summit County, Utah (the 'County') are ordered to stay at their place of residence.... Section 3. Business Closures. All businesses with a facility in the County, except Essential Businesses..., are required to cease all activities at facilities located within the County except 'Minimum Basic Operations'... Section 4. Public and Private Gatherings Prohibited. All public and private gatherings of any number of people are prohibited... Section 5. Travel Restrictions. All travel, including, but not limited to, travel on foot, bicycle, scooter, motorcycle, automobile, or public transit, except 'Essential Travel' and 'Essential Activities'..., is prohibited.... Section 8. Visitors. Visitors to Summit County are directed to return home immediately upon the issuance of this Order, no later than April 1, 2020.

Enforcement

Section 12: County Sheriff and Chiefs of Police directed to ensure compliance and enforce; violations a Class B misdemeanor (county release, MET-SLC-017)

Notes

Essential Businesses defined (Section 7.F) to include health care, grocery, media, gas stations, banks, hardware, plumbers and electricians, mail, schools for distance learning only, laundromats, restaurants for curbside and drive-thru only, home-based care, child care for exempt workers, and professional services 'when necessary to assist in compliance with legally mandated activities'; construction under PHO 2020-02 conditions; recites the Utah Academy of Family Physicians' Mar. 25 call for stay-at-home orders and that Summit County's per-capita rate was twenty times Salt Lake County's

Retrieval note

The first stay-at-home order in Utah; text read in full (13 pages).

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