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Executive Order No. 17 (Extension of Restrictions on Activities to Limit Spread of COVID-19)

Executive Order 17 - Extension of Restrictions on Activities to Limit Spread of COVID-19

County Executive Sam Page · St. Louis County, Missouri (County)

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Jurisdiction
St. Louis County, Missouri · St. Louis · Missouri
Level
County
Authority
RSMo ch. 44; Charter arts. III and IV, § 4.130; Executive Orders 10 and 15
Issued
2020-04-22 Apr. 22, 2020
Effective
2020-04-22 (immediately); 'it shall expire only upon further order' (read as 2020-04-22)
End
Continuing; recited with Executive Orders 10-18 in the July 26, 2021 order (read as 2021-07-26)
In force
Apr. 22, 2020 to July 26, 2021
Quarters
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
Limitation types
Emergency declarationStay-at-home
Addressees
  • Director of the Department of Public Health
  • all persons and businesses in St. Louis County
Functions reached
  • predicate for every DPH order from Apr. 22, 2020 through Q3 2021
Collection
St. Louis MET-STL

Operative words

WHEREAS, on March 21, 2020, I signed Executive Order 15 to place restrictions on activities in order to limit the spread of COVID-19 and the Department of Public Health subsequently issued stay at home orders... NOW, THEREFORE, I, Sam Page, County Executive, St. Louis County, Missouri, do hereby ORDER: 1. Paragraph 3 of Executive Order 15 shall be rescinded and replaced by the following... The Director of the Department of Public Health shall impose the restrictions described herein and shall continue to impose those restrictions until she deems that such restrictions are no longer [necessary]... 2. The Director of the Department of Public Health may promulgate such mandatory or advisory rules, orders, policies, and guidance as is necessary and appropriate to implement this Executive Order... Mandatory rules, orders, or policies so promulgated shall have [the force of law]... 3. This order shall be effective immediately upon my execution hereof and it shall expire only upon further order. SO ORDERED this twenty-second day of April, 2020.

Enforcement

DPH mandatory rules and orders have force under the Executive Order; RSMo § 192.320

Notes

The executive instrument that made the County's stay-at-home and later orders open-ended and delegated the timing of their end to the DPH Director.

Retrieval note

Rendering of the County's own web posting of the order text.