Skip to content
The COVID Project
  1. Library
  2. Education and Child Care
  3. SEC-15-093

Ex. SEC-15-093 Order Confirmed from a secondary source

Executive Order 1460 (Mar. 19, 2020: all public schools closed through Apr. 17, 2020) and Executive Order 1476 (recited as Apr. 22, 2020: all public school buildings closed for the remainder of the 2019-20 academic year)

Mississippi school closure orders of 2020 (EO 1460; EO 1476)

Governor Tate Reeves · Mississippi (State)

The COVID Project

The record

Jurisdiction
Mississippi
Level
State
Authority
Miss. Code Ann. 33-15-11(c)(1) and (4)
Issued
2020-03-19 Mar. 19, 2020
Effective
2020-03-19 through the end of the 2019-20 school year (read as 2020-03-19)
End
End of the 2019-20 school year (read as 2020-06-30)
In force
Mar. 19, 2020 to June 30, 2020
Quarters
2020 Q2
Limitation types
Schools and child care
Addressees
  • all Mississippi public schools
Functions reached
  • IN
  • RL
  • FS
  • TR
  • AC
  • WF
  • CB
Collection
Education and Child Care SEC-15

Operative words

As recited in EO 1517 (Ex. SEC-15-058): 'on March 19, 2020, I issued Executive Order 1460... closing all Mississippi public schools through April 17, 2020... on April 22, 2020, I issued Executive Order 1476... closing all Mississippi public school buildings through the remainder of the 2019-2020 academic year.'

Enforcement

Miss. Code Ann. 33-15-17

Notes

Existence, numbers and dates verified from the recitals of a primary exhibit; Ballotpedia records the Apr. 14, 2020 announcement. Private schools closed under the Apr. 1, 2020 shelter-in-place order (EO 1466).

Retrieval note

The file first saved as 'EO 1471' proved to be the Apr. 14, 2020 health care workforce order and was removed from this folder.