The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- West Virginia
- Level
- State
- Authority
- W. Va. Code 15-5-6
- Issued
- 2021-07-20 July 20, 2021
- Effective
- 2021-10-01 12:01 a.m. (read as 2021-10-01)
- End
- Self-executing
- In force
- Oct. 1, 2021 (no end date recorded; counted as in force for 120 days)
- Quarters
- 2021 Q3
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Emergency declarationOther
- Addressees
- vehicle owners
- Division of Motor Vehicles
- Functions reached
- DM motor-vehicle inspections (suspension in force through Sept. 30, 2021)
- evidence that the State of Emergency and EO 7-20 were in force in the third quarter of 2021
- Collection
- West Virginia WV
Operative words
WHEREAS, a State of Emergency was declared on the Sixteenth Day of March, Two Thousand Twenty for all counties in West Virginia... NOW, THEREFORE, I, JIM JUSTICE, pursuant to the authority vested in me pursuant to the provision of Chapter 15, Article 5, Section 6 of the Code of West Virginia, hereby DECLARE and ORDER that effective as of 12:01 AM, Eastern Daylight Time, on the First day of October, Two Thousand Twenty-One, Section 14 of Executive Order 7-20, providing for the suspension of 'Deadlines for annual vehicle inspections (W. Va. Code 17C-16-1, et seq.),' shall be terminated and without further effect.
Enforcement
Notes
The only gubernatorial COVID-19 order issued in the third quarter of 2021; it recites the continuing emergency and keeps the inspection-deadline suspension in force to the last day of the quarter.
Retrieval noteSecretary of State filed copy read by OCR. Executive Journal DocIDs 91229 through 91500 (June 30 to mid-September 2021 filings) were swept one by one; EO 24-21 (Aug. 17, 2021; Vigilant Guard exercise) is the only other executive order and is not COVID-related.