Skip to content
The COVID Project
  1. Library
  2. Retail Trade
  3. SEC-07-030

Ex. SEC-07-030 Order Confirmed from a secondary source

Executive Order N-44-20

Executive Order N-44-20 (price gouging: extension of Penal Code 396 protections and additional restrictions on retail price increases)

Governor Gavin Newsom · California (State)

The COVID Project

The record

Jurisdiction
California
Level
State
Authority
Cal. Gov't Code 8567, 8571, 8627; Penal Code 396
Issued
2020-04-03 Apr. 3, 2020
Effective
2020-04-03
End
2020-09-04 (extended by EO N-78-20, Ex. SEC-07-032) (read as 2020-09-04)
In force
Apr. 3, 2020 to Sept. 4, 2020
Quarters
2020 Q22020 Q3
Limitation types
Other
Addressees
  • any person or entity selling food, consumer goods, medical or emergency supplies at retail
Functions reached
  • SF (retail price limits on essentials)
  • CU (online resale)
  • SC (procurement pricing)
Collection
Retail Trade SEC-07

Operative words

(as recited in EO N-03-21) Executive Orders N-44-20 and N-78-20... further implemented protections against price gouging (Penal Code 396 ten-percent limit on price increases for consumer food items and goods, emergency and medical supplies, and a bar on selling above the prevailing price items not previously sold)

Enforcement

Penal Code 396 (misdemeanor; civil enforcement by the Attorney General and district attorneys)

Notes

An order limiting retail commerce by price, statewide, in force through Sept. 4, 2021 with its successors.

Retrieval note

Image-only PDF from the Governor's site; content and dates confirmed from the recitals and paragraphs of EO N-03-21 (Ex. SEC-07-033), which was read.