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Executive Order 1539

Seventeen counties added to the EO 1536 face-covering mandate (78 of 82 counties)

Governor Tate Reeves · Mississippi (Benton, George, Greene, Hancock, Humphreys, Jasper, Leake, Newton, Pike, Quitman, Smith, Sunflower, Tallahatchie, Walthall, Warren, Wayne, Wilkinson Counties) (State)

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Jurisdiction
Mississippi (Benton, George, Greene, Hancock, Humphreys, Jasper, Leake, Newton, Pike, Quitman, Smith, Sunflower, Tallahatchie, Walthall, Warren, Wayne, Wilkinson Counties) · Mississippi
Level
State
Authority
Miss. Code Ann. 33-15-11(c)(1), (c)(4), 33-15-31
Issued
2020-12-22 Dec. 22, 2020
Effective
2020-12-23 08:00 (read as 2020-12-23)
End
2021-01-15 17:00 as issued; extended with EO 1536 to Mar. 3, 2021 (read as 2021-01-15)
In force
Dec. 23, 2020 to Jan. 15, 2021
Quarters
2020 Q42021 Q1
Limitation types
Face-covering requirement
Addressees
  • every person in the seventeen counties
Functions reached
  • SF masks
  • WF
Collection
Mississippi MS

Operative words

Paragraph II of Executive Order 1536 is amended to add Benton, George, Greene, Hancock, Humphreys, Jasper, Leake, Newton, Pike, Quitman, Smith, Sunflower, Tallahatchie, Walthall, Warren, Wayne and Wilkinson Counties. This amendment to Paragraph II of Executive Order 1536 shall be effective at 8:00 a.m. on Wednesday, December 23, 2020, and shall remain in full force and effect until 5:00 p.m. on Friday, January 15, 2021.

Enforcement

As in EO 1535

Notes

Ballotpedia (Dec. 23, 2020): 78 of 82 counties under the mask order.

Retrieval note

Date per Husch Blackwell and Ballotpedia (Dec. 22; effective Dec. 23).