The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Utah
- Level
- State
- Authority
- Utah Code 53-2a-206(1), 53-2a-102(5), (13)
- Issued
- 2020-11-08 Nov. 8, 2020
- Effective
- 2020-11-09 1:00 p.m. (read as 2020-11-09)
- End
- 2020-12-08 ('unless extended by the Utah State Legislature'); no extension or successor located (read as 2020-12-08)
- In force
- Nov. 9, 2020 to Dec. 8, 2020
- Quarters
- 2020 Q4
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Emergency declarationHealth care orders
- Addressees
- State agencies
- political subdivisions
- hospitals
- Functions reached
- predicate
- IP inpatient and ICU capacity (recitals)
- Collection
- Utah UT
Operative words
WHEREAS, Utah has limited ICU capacity in referral center hospitals to which serious COVID-19 patients are referred, and 85% of such capacity is being used...; WHEREAS, if the State does not take action to mitigate the increasing strain on ICUs, hospitals will be required to implement Crisis Standards of Care...; NOW, THEREFORE, I, Gary R. Herbert, Governor of the State of Utah, declare a statewide "State of Emergency"... This Order shall take effect November 9, 2020, at 1:00 p.m. and shall remain in effect through December 8, 2020, unless extended by the Utah State Legislature
Enforcement
Predicate for EO 2020-73, -74, -75 under 53-2a-209(1)
Notes
Recitals: 132,621 cases, 6,084 hospitalizations, 659 deaths as of Nov. 8, 2020; record 2,956 new cases Nov. 7, 2020.
Retrieval noteThe Governor's Nov. 8, 2020 press release (coronavirus-download.utah.gov/Governor/State-of-emergency-press-release-11.8.2020.pdf) states: 'Businesses that fail to do so will be subject to fines' and 'even after the orders issued today expire, the mask mandate will be extended for the foreseeable future.'.