The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Ohio
- Level
- State
- Authority
- R.C. 3701.13
- Issued
- 2020-03-22 Mar. 22, 2020
- Effective
- 2020-03-23 11:59 p.m. (read as 2020-03-23)
- End
- 2020-04-06 (Amended Order Apr. 2 to May 1, 2020; Stay Safe Ohio May 1) (read as 2020-04-06)
- In force
- Mar. 23, 2020 to Apr. 6, 2020
- Quarters
- 2020 Q2
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Stay-at-homeBusiness closureTelework mandateGathering cap
- Addressees
- all individuals
- any for-profit, non-profit, or educational entities
- religious entities
- Functions reached
- WS religious gatherings exempt from the 10-person prohibition (sec. 3 recital) but subject to distancing
- FS soup kitchens take-away only; food banks and shelters essential
- OP nonprofits covered as businesses
- FC weddings and funerals
- Collection
- Religious Organizations and Nonprofits SEC-16
Operative words
Sec. 11. Businesses covered by this Order.... covered businesses include any for-profit, non-profit, or educational entities, regardless of the nature of the service, the function it performs, or its corporate or entity structure. Sec. 12(d). Organizations that provide charitable and social services. Businesses and religious and secular nonprofit organizations, including food banks, when providing food, shelter, and social services... Sec. 12(e). Religious entities. Religious facilities, entities and groups and religious gatherings, including weddings and funerals.... Sec. 12(o). Restaurants for consumption off-premises... Schools and other entities that typically provide food services to students or members of the public may continue to do so under this Order on the condition that the food is provided to students or members of the public on a pick-up and takeaway basis only. Sec. 5(e). To take care of others... This includes attending weddings and funerals.
Enforcement
R.C. 3701.352, 3701.99 (second-degree misdemeanor)
Notes
Retrieval noteScanned; no text layer; sections 11, 12(d), 12(e) and 12(o) verified against rendered pages 4-6 by the repair agent Sept. 27, 2026.