The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Georgia
- Level
- State
- Authority
- O.C.G.A. 38-3-51
- Issued
- 2020-03-23 Mar. 23, 2020
- Effective
- 2020-03-24 12:00 p.m. (read as 2020-03-24)
- End
- 2020-04-06 12:00 p.m. as written (superseded by EO 04.02.20.01, Ex. SEC-16-054) (read as 2020-04-06)
- In force
- Mar. 24, 2020 to Apr. 6, 2020
- Quarters
- 2020 Q2
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Stay-at-homeBusiness closureGathering cap
- Addressees
- all persons and organizations
- bars
- medically fragile persons
- Functions reached
- WS and EV gatherings of more than 10 persons within six feet prohibited for every non-profit corporation and organization (no religious exception in the text)
- FC
- CB medically fragile members ordered to shelter in place
- Collection
- Religious Organizations and Nonprofits SEC-16
Operative words
ORDERED: That no business, establishment, corporation, non-profit corporation, or organization shall allow more than ten (10) persons to be gathered at a single location if such gathering requires persons to stand or to be seated within six (6) feet of any other person.... ORDERED: That all businesses which possess a license to operate as or otherwise meet the definition of "Bar" as defined by Code Section 3-1-2(2.1) shall cease operation while this Order is in effect.... ORDERED: That the Department of Public Health shall order certain persons within the State of Georgia who have serious underlying conditions likely to cause an increased spread of COVID-19, if such persons were to become infected, to isolate, quarantine, or shelter in place within their homes or place of residence.... ORDERED: That the Department of Public Health is authorized to mandate the closure of any business, establishment, corporation, non-profit corporation, or organization not in compliance with this order for a period not to extend beyond the term of this Order.... ORDERED: All provisions of the Order shall become effective for a period of fourteen days, beginning at 12:00 P.M. on Tuesday, March 24, 2020, and expiring at 12:00 P.M. on Monday, April 6, 2020.
Enforcement
O.C.G.A. 38-3-7; Department of Public Health authorized to mandate closure of any non-compliant business, corporation, non-profit corporation or organization; Commissioner of Public Safety to assist in enforcement (recited)
Notes
Scanned (3 pages); all three pages read from rendered images by the repair agent Sept. 27, 2026. Signed 'This 23rd day of March 2020, at 5:58 P.M.'
Retrieval noteScanned; no text layer; clauses transcribed from rendered pages 2-3 (repair, Sept. 27, 2026).