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Executive Order 20-13

Eleventh Supplemental Emergency Declaration - Staying At Home, Reducing Gatherings, Certain Retail Business Closures and Further Quarantine Provisions

Governor Gina M. Raimondo · Rhode Island (State)

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Jurisdiction
Rhode Island
Level
State
Authority
R.I. Const. art. IX; R.I. Gen. Laws tit. 30, ch. 15; tit. 23, ch. 8
Issued
2020-03-28 Mar. 28, 2020
Effective
2020-03-28 (stay-home, gatherings, quarantine); 2020-03-30 (non-critical retail closure) (read as 2020-03-28)
End
2020-04-13 by its terms; as amended by EO 20-14 the same day, extended by EO 20-23 (Apr. 10, 2020) to May 8, 2020; stay-home order lifted by EO 20-32 effective May 9, 2020 (read as 2020-04-13)
In force
Mar. 28, 2020 to Apr. 13, 2020
Quarters
2020 Q2
Limitation types
Stay-at-homeBusiness closureTelework mandateGathering capTravel and quarantineQuarantine and isolation
Addressees
  • all Rhode Island residents
  • all employers
  • non-critical retail businesses
  • all persons entering the State
Functions reached
  • CB customer base confined to home
  • SF sales floor closed (non-critical retail)
  • OF telework compelled for interstate employees
  • GATH all meetings over five
  • TR interstate travel and commuting
  • WF
Collection
Rhode Island RI

Operative words

1. All Rhode Island residents are required to stay home unless traveling to work, traveling for medical treatment or obtaining necessities (food, medicine, gas, etc.).... 2. Any Rhode Island employer with employees who live in other states shall use all means available to enable these employees to telecommute or make other work-from-home arrangements.... 3. All gatherings of more than five (5) people in any public or private space such as an auditorium, stadium, arena, large conference room, meeting hall, library, theater, place of worship, parade, fair, festival, park or beach, are prohibited.... 4. Effective Monday, March 30, 2020, all non-critical retail businesses shall cease in-person operations.... 5. Any person coming to Rhode Island from another state for a non-work-related purpose must immediately self-quarantine for 14 days.... 6. Any person who lives in Rhode Island and works in another state who can work from home is required to do so.

Enforcement

R.I. Gen. Laws tit. 23, ch. 8 and tit. 30, ch. 15; DBR designates critical retail

Notes

Critical retail list defined in ¶4 and by DBR (Ex. RI-074). Restaurants confined to pickup, drive-through and delivery.

Retrieval note

Amended and restated the same day as EO 20-14 (Ex. RI-010).

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