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- Jurisdiction
- Michigan
- Level
- State
- Authority
- MCL 10.31 (Emergency Powers of the Governor Act of 1945); MCL 30.403 (Emergency Management Act)
- Issued
- 2020-05-01 May 1, 2020
- Effective
- 2020-05-01; real estate provisions 2020-05-07 12:01 a.m. (read as 2020-05-01)
- End
- superseded by EO 2020-77 (May 7), EO 2020-92 (May 18) and EO 2020-96 (May 21), which carried the same real estate clause; the clause ended with EO 2020-110 (June 1, 2020) (read as 2020-06-01)
- In force
- May 1, 2020 to June 1, 2020
- Quarters
- 2020 Q2
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Stay-at-homeBusiness closureCapacity limitGathering capWorkplace rules
- Addressees
- all persons and businesses in Michigan; workers in the real-estate industry
- Functions reached
- SH showings by appointment, four persons, no open houses; tenant-occupied homes not showable
- LS photography and videography by appointment
- AP appraisals and inspections by appointment
- CL registers of deeds reopen May 7
- OP offices: remote work promoted, workers restricted
- WF
- Collection
- Real Estate SEC-14
Operative words
s. 10(h): Effective at 12:01 am on May 7, 2020, workers in the real-estate industry, including agents, appraisers, brokers, inspectors, surveyors, and registers of deeds, provided that: (1) Any showings, inspections, appraisals, photography or videography, or final walk-throughs must be performed by appointment and must be limited to no more than four people on the premises at any one time. No in-person open houses are permitted. (2) Private showings may only be arranged for owner-occupied homes, vacant homes, vacant land, commercial property, and industrial property. s. 11: Businesses... that remain open for in-person work must, at a minimum: (a) Develop a COVID-19 preparedness and response plan... (b) Restrict the number of workers present on premises to no more than is strictly necessary... (c) Promote remote work to the fullest extent possible. (d) Keep workers and patrons who are on premises at least six feet from one another
Enforcement
MCL 10.33; MCL 30.405(3): misdemeanor; licensing sanctions (s. 20-21)
Notes
Before May 7, 2020 in-person real estate work was not permitted under EO 2020-21, -42 and -59 (Mar. 24-May 6, 2020)
Retrieval noteScanned image PDF; pages 8-10 rendered and read; quotations transcribed from the image.