The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Mississippi (statewide hospital rule; Chickasaw, Claiborne, DeSoto, Forrest, Itawamba, Jackson, Lamar, Lee, Neshoba Counties) · Mississippi
- Level
- State
- Authority
- Miss. Code Ann. 33-15-11(c)(1), (c)(4), 33-15-31
- Issued
- 2020-10-19 Oct. 19, 2020
- Effective
- 2020-10-21 08:00 (read as 2020-10-21)
- End
- 2020-11-11 08:00 as issued; county measures re-set and extended by EO 1530 to Dec. 11, 2020; hospital rule carried into EO 1535 to Mar. 3, 2021 (read as 2020-11-11)
- In force
- Oct. 21, 2020 to Nov. 11, 2020
- Quarters
- 2020 Q4
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Gathering capFace-covering requirementHealth care orders
- Addressees
- health care facilities statewide
- every person in the nine counties
- businesses in the nine counties
- Functions reached
- SX elective procedures
- IP capacity
- SF masks (nine counties)
- GATH 10/50
- Collection
- Mississippi MS
Operative words
Paragraph II of Executive Order 1525 is amended to add subsection (p) as follows: p. Hospital Capacity: In order to perform non-emergent, elective medical procedures and [surgeries, the healthcare facility must] reserve at least 10% of its hospital capacity for treatment of COVID-19 patients.... [In Chickasaw, Claiborne, DeSoto, Forrest,] Itawamba, Jackson, Lamar, Lee, and Neshoba Counties... Face Coverings: Every person shall wear a face covering, covering the nose and mouth, when inside a business, school, building or other indoor space open to the [public whenever it is not possible to maintain six feet of social] distancing from another person not in the same household... Public and private social gatherings and recreational activities shall be limited to groups of no more than 10 people in a single indoor space or groups of no more than 50 people in an outdoor space.
Enforcement
As in EO 1525 (Miss. Code Ann. 33-15-11(b)(5)-(6); 33-15-43)
Notes
Ballotpedia: 'Facilities that cannot maintain this capacity will have to pause elective procedures.'
Retrieval noteFiled from the City of Tupelo's copy of the signed original (tupeloms.gov); date per Husch Blackwell and Ballotpedia (Oct. 19; effective Oct. 21).