The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- City of Columbia; City of Charleston; City of Greenville; Richland County; Charleston County; City of Myrtle Beach; Horry County; Town of Lexington; City of North Myrtle Beach (principal local instruments) · South Carolina
- Level
- City
- Authority
- S.C. Code § 4-9-130 (county emergency ordinances, effective immediately, expiring the sixty-first day); § 5-7-250 (municipal emergency ordinances); Home Rule Act
- Issued
- 2020-03-26 Mar. 26, 2020
- Effective
- stay-at-home Mar. 26-29, 2020 (superseded by EO 2020-21 Apr. 7); masks late June / July 2020 (read as 2020-03-26)
- End
- Municipal general-public mask mandates invalidated by EO 2021-23 § 2(D) (May 11, 2021); Town of Lexington dropped its rule Mar. 5, 2021 and North Myrtle Beach its restaurant rule Mar. 11, 2021; Columbia extended its rule Mar. 16, 2021; Richland County's rule not enforced from Sept. 2, 2021 (SC-042 n.2) (read as 2021-05-11)
- In force
- Mar. 26, 2020 to May 11, 2021
- Quarters
- 2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q2
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Stay-at-homeFace-covering requirementWorkplace rules
- Addressees
- the public and retail, grocery, pharmacy and food-service employers within each jurisdiction
- Functions reached
- SF sales floor
- DR dining room
- SL salons
- CB customers under mask condition
- HR employee screening and PPE
- Collection
- South Carolina SC
Enforcement
Civil infractions (Richland County's 2021 form: $25 per person, $100 per business, each day a separate offense); municipal penalties
Notes
Existence and the State's treatment of these ordinances are verified from primary State instruments: EO 2020-50 recites that the Governor 'encouraged counties and municipalities of this State to enact or implement appropriate and narrowly tailored emergency ordinances... requiring individuals to wear face coverings'; EO 2021-12 § 2(G) preserved them; EO 2021-23 § 2(D) declared 'any remaining mandates issued by counties, municipalities, or other political subdivisions of this State related to Face Coverings' invalid and preempted.
Retrieval noteFor a memorandum: describe by category and cite EO 2020-50, EO 2021-12 § 2(G) and EO 2021-23 § 2(D) for their existence and termination.