The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Minnesota
- Level
- State
- Authority
- Minn. Stat. 12.21, 12.31, 12.32, 12.45
- Issued
- 2020-03-19 Mar. 19, 2020
- Effective
- 2020-03-23 5:00 p.m. (read as 2020-03-23)
- End
- 2020-05-10 11:59 p.m. (EO 20-51) (read as 2020-05-10)
- In force
- Mar. 23, 2020 to May 10, 2020
- Quarters
- 2020 Q2
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Health care orders
- Addressees
- all health care facilities and providers performing surgeries and procedures using PPE or ventilators
- Functions reached
- Collection
- Hospitals and Health Systems SEC-01
Operative words
1. Beginning no later than March 23, 2020 at 5:00 pm, and continuing for the duration of the peacetime emergency... or until this Executive Order is rescinded, all non-essential or elective surgeries and procedures, including non-emergent or elective dental care, that utilize PPE or ventilators must be postponed indefinitely.... Pursuant to Minnesota Statutes 2019, section 12.45, a person who willfully violates paragraph 1 of this Executive Order is guilty of a misdemeanor.
Enforcement
Minn. Stat. 12.45 (misdemeanor; fine to $1,000 or 90 days)