The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Minnesota
- Level
- State
- Authority
- Minn. Stat. secs. 12.21, subd. 3, 4.035, subd. 2
- Issued
- 2020-03-23 Mar. 23, 2020
- Effective
- 2020-03-23 (inventory due Mar. 25, 2020) (read as 2020-03-23)
- End
- Para. 3 use restriction narrowed 11:59 p.m. May 10, 2020 (EO 20-51 para. 3); rescinded by EO 20-84 (Aug. 2020) (read as 2020-05-10)
- In force
- Mar. 23, 2020 to May 10, 2020
- Quarters
- 2020 Q22020 Q3
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Health care ordersSupply chain
- Addressees
- any Minnesota business, nonprofit, or non-hospital health care facility, 'whether veterinary, dental, construction, research, institution of higher learning, or other'
- Functions reached
- SC PPE supply
- PR procedures requiring PPE
- JS job sites (construction PPE)
- ST sterilization and infection control
- Collection
- Minnesota MN
Operative words
1. Any Minnesota business, nonprofit, or non-hospital health care facility, whether veterinary, dental, construction, research, institution of higher learning, or other, in possession of PPE, ventilators, respirators, or anesthesia machines... must undertake an inventory of such supplies no later than March 25, 2020.... 3. Any Minnesota business, nonprofit, or non-hospital health care facility must refrain from using any such consumable equipment other than for use in delivering critical health care services or essential services requiring such equipment, and must either donate it to a local coordinating entity or prepare for the possibility of being asked to donate or sell it for use by critical health care workers.
Enforcement
Emergency order with force of law under sec. 12.32; no separate penalty paragraph (sec. 12.45 general misdemeanor applies to willful violations of emergency orders)
Notes
A State allocation order on private inventories of N95s, gowns and gloves held by dental offices, contractors, laboratories and colleges.