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- Jurisdiction
- Florida
- Level
- State
- Authority
- Fla. Const. art. IV, § 1(a); Fla. Stat. ch. 252 (State Emergency Management Act), § 252.36; EO 20-52
- Issued
- 2020-03-27 Mar. 27, 2020
- Effective
- 2020-03-27
- End
- Quarantine requirements rescinded by EO 20-192 (Aug. 5, 2020); checkpoints wound down May-June 2020 (State file) (read as 2020-08-05)
- In force
- Mar. 27, 2020 to Aug. 5, 2020
- Quarters
- 2020 Q22020 Q3
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Travel and quarantineQuarantine and isolation
- Addressees
- persons entering Florida by road from Louisiana and from areas with substantial community spread
- Florida Department of Transportation
- Florida Highway Patrol and county sheriffs
- Functions reached
- DR (I-10 and I-95 checkpoints at the Alabama and Georgia lines stopped every entering vehicle; commercial exception applied at the checkpoint, on documentation)
- DS (routing and transit-time planning around checkpoints)
- CB (Florida-bound passenger and household traffic quarantined)
- Collection
- Logistics, Warehousing and Wholesale SEC-11
Operative words
I direct the establishment of appropriate checkpoints on the roadways for those persons and vehicles entering the State of Florida and to require those persons to provide information, including in a written form, regarding the origin of their travel and on the address of their location of isolation or quarantine for a period of 14 days.... I further direct the Florida Department of Transportation to facilitate locations for appropriate checkpoints, including at welcome centers and rest stops... This section shall not apply to persons performing military, emergency, health or infrastructure response, or persons involved in any commercial activity.
Enforcement
Second-degree misdemeanor under Fla. Stat. § 252.50 (recited in EO 20-82 § 2); Highway Patrol and sheriffs directed to enforce
Notes
Truck traffic was funneled through the same checkpoints and welcome centers; the exception for 'commercial activity' did not spare the stop.
Retrieval noteRetrieved through the Wayback raw URL because flgov.com no longer serves the 2020 path.