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Ex. WV-060 Order Primary source read

Executive Order 8-21

Gathering limit raised to 100; restaurants and bars up to 100 percent of seating subject to distancing between common groups; capacity limits on small businesses, retail, gyms and museums lifted; travel sports prohibited only in Red counties

Governor Jim Justice · West Virginia (State)

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Jurisdiction
West Virginia
Level
State
Authority
W. Va. Code 15-5-6 and 15-5-1
Issued
2021-03-05 Mar. 5, 2021
Effective
2021-03-06 12:01 a.m. (read as 2021-03-06)
End
Framework terminated Apr. 20, 2021 (EO 12-21), which restated the Red-county travel-sports prohibition (read as 2021-04-20)
In force
Mar. 6, 2021 to Apr. 20, 2021
Quarters
2021 Q12021 Q2
Limitation types
Capacity limitGathering capAlcohol and barsEvents and venues
Addressees
  • all individuals
  • restaurants, bars and other facilities
  • travel sports teams and leagues
Functions reached
  • DR dining room (100 percent subject to distancing)
  • GATH events (100)
  • SF retail (capacity limits lifted per the Governor's release)
  • SP travel sports (Red counties)
Collection
West Virginia WV

Operative words

'g.... abide by a 100-person limitation on gathering size...' 'c.... provided, that the occupancy of persons that may be indoors at such restaurant, bar, or other facility must be limited to the extent necessary to allow for proper social distance between common groups at such facility, up to 100% of such facility's seating capacity to the extent that square footage and the number of seats and tables, and the spacing of seats and tables, permits.'

Enforcement

EO 9-20 paragraph 7

Notes

The Governor's release of Mar. 5, 2021 describes the lifting of capacity limits on small businesses, retail, grocery stores, gyms and museums and the confinement of the travel-sports prohibition to Red counties (Husch Blackwell tracker); those sections of the five-page order were not printed in the OCR extract read and are recorded from the tracker.

Retrieval note

Read by OCR (sections 1.g and 3.c quoted; remaining sections summarized from the tracker).

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