The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Rhode Island
- Level
- State
- Authority
- R.I. Const. art. IX; R.I. Gen. Laws tit. 30, ch. 15 (as amended by 2021-H 6122Aaa art. 3 § 3)
- Issued
- 2021-08-19 Aug. 19, 2021
- Effective
- 2021-08-19
- End
- 2021-09-18 by its terms; extended by EO 21-97 (Sept. 17, through Oct. 16), 21-103 (Oct. 15, through Nov. 13), and later orders; EO 21-109 (Nov. 12, 2021) re-declared the variant emergency (read as 2021-09-18)
- In force
- Aug. 19, 2021 to Sept. 18, 2021
- Quarters
- 2021 Q3
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Emergency declaration
- Addressees
- all State agencies
- the public
- Functions reached
- all (predicate for the third-quarter 2021 orders)
- Collection
- Rhode Island RI
Operative words
WHEREAS, since August 11, 2021, Rhode Island has been experiencing a high level of community transmission of the Delta Variant, defined as more than 100 cases of COVID-19 per 100,000 people in the past 7 days... 1. A new state of emergency is declared for the State of Rhode Island due to the dangers to health and life posed by the Delta Variant and other emerging variants and the state disaster emergency plan is activated to deal with this specific threat. 2.... I shall from time to time issue additional recommendations, directions and orders as circumstances require, either written or verbal.
Enforcement
Predicate for EO 21-87 (school masks), 21-89, 21-91, 21-93 and successors
Notes
A second, separately declared COVID-19 disaster emergency, issued in the third quarter of 2021 on a finding of 'high' community transmission, forty-four days after the general restrictions were terminated.