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RSMo 67.265 (HB 271)

Public health order for threat to public health by contagious disease, requirements, procedure (time limits and governing-body approval for local orders)

Missouri General Assembly (H.B. 271, 2021), approved by Governor Parson June 15, 2021 · Missouri (State)

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Jurisdiction
Missouri
Level
State
Authority
Statute, RSMo 67.265 (L. 2021 H.B. 271)
Issued
2021-06-15 June 15, 2021
Effective
2021-06-15
End
In force (statute) (read as 2021-09-30)
In force
June 15, 2021 to Sept. 30, 2021
Quarters
2021 Q22021 Q3
Limitation types
Other
Addressees
  • political subdivisions, local health officers and agencies
  • businesses, churches, schools and places of assembly subject to local orders
Functions reached
  • governs every local order reaching every function from June 15, 2021
Collection
Missouri MO

Operative words

(1) Any order issued during and related to an emergency declared pursuant to chapter 44 that directly or indirectly closes, partially closes, or places restrictions on the opening of or access to any one or more business organizations, churches, schools, or other places of public or private gathering or assembly, including any order, ordinance, rule, or regulation of general applicability or that prohibits or otherwise limits attendance at any public or private gatherings, shall not remain in effect for longer than thirty calendar days in a one hundred eighty-day-period, including the cumulative duration of similar orders issued concurrently, consecutively, or successively, and shall automatically expire at the end of the thirty days or as specified in the order, whichever is shorter, unless so authorized by a simple majority vote of the political subdivision's governing body to extend such order or approve a similar order; provided that such extension or approval of similar orders shall not exceed thirty calendar days in duration and any order may be extended more than once; and (2) Any order of general applicability issued at a time other than an emergency declared pursuant to chapter 44 that directly or indirectly closes an entire classification of business organizations, churches, schools, or other places of public or private gathering or assembly shall not remain in effect for longer than twenty-one calendar days in a one hundred eighty-day-period... unless so authorized by a two-thirds majority vote of the political subdivision's governing body

Enforcement

Automatic expiration of non-conforming local orders; governing body may terminate any order by simple majority (subsec. 2); political subdivisions may not circumvent (subsecs. 5-6)

Notes

The statute presupposes and regulates local closure, restriction and gathering orders; it did not abolish them. The St. Louis County Council's July 27, 2021 vote against the County's mask order was taken under this section (Ballotpedia).

Retrieval note

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