The Metros

St. Louis

Name: St. Louis: local governmental orders, March 2020 through September 2021
Creator: The COVID Project

The St. Louis file holds 106 instruments from the counties, cities, health officers, courts and transit authorities of the area, 100 of them with the exhibit file held by The COVID Project. The statewide orders that ran over the same ground are in the Missouri file and the Illinois file.

Code STLStates Missouri, IllinoisFirst closure or stay-at-home order Mar. 17, 2020 Ex. MET-STL-051Orders reaching 2021 Q3 21Primary source read 71 Confirmed from a secondary source 35

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The record in brief

ScopeCity of St. Louis (Mayoral Proclamations and Health Commissioner's Orders under Charter art. XIII, § 14-C(c) and 19 CSR 20-20.050); St. Louis County (County Executive Orders 10-17 and Department of Public Health orders under RSMo § 192.300, 19 CSR 20-20.050 and Charter § 4.130); St. Charles County (County Executive and Department of Public Health instruments); the Illinois Metro East (IDPH Region 4 resurgence mitigations; Madison and St. Clair County health department postings; Third Judicial Circuit administrative orders); the Bi-State Development Agency's Metro Transit operating and mask rules; the 22nd Judicial Circuit; the Missouri statute limiting local health orders (RSMo § 67.265, HB 271) and the 2021 injunction history. Statewide Missouri and Illinois instruments are cited by name and date only.

The St. Louis metropolitan area ran on two State regimes and a dense local layer. On the Missouri side the State's own restrictions were short (the DHSS social-distancing order of March 21, 2020, the Stay Home Missouri order of April 3, 2020 effective April 6 through May 3, 2020, and the Phase 1 reopening order of April 27, 2020 effective May 4 through June 15, 2020; nothing statewide after June 16, 2020), so the City of St. Louis and St. Louis County orders were the operative limits on commerce, travel and group meetings for the metro's Missouri core from March 13, 2020 through May 13-14, 2021, and again from July 26, 2021. On the Illinois side the Governor's statewide orders governed the Metro East continuously (stay-at-home March 21-May 29, 2020; Phases 3 and 4; Tier 3 November 20, 2020; the Bridge Phase May 14, 2021; Phase 5 June 11, 2021; the indoor mask mandate from August 30, 2021), and the Metro East carried the State's first and longest regional resurgence mitigations (Region 4 Tier 1 from August 18, 2020 and Tier 2 from September 2, 2020, into Tier 3, then Tier 2 on January 22, 2021 and Phase 4 on February 4, 2021). 2020 Q2 and the March 13-31 run-up: the City proclaimed a public health emergency March 13, 2020 and forbade assemblies over 1,000 (Ex. MET-STL-001, -002); the County declared a state of emergency the same day (Ex. MET-STL-048); both capped gatherings at 50 by March 16 and at 10 by March 18-20 (Ex. MET-STL-003, -005, -049, -052); both closed restaurants and bars to dine-in service from March 19, 2020 (Ex. MET-STL-004, -046, -051); and both issued stay-at-home orders effective March 23, 2020 (City Order No. 5, 6:00 p.m.; County Stay at Home Order, 12:01 a.m.) closing every non-essential business and confining the customer base and workforce to home (Ex. MET-STL-006, -044, -057). The County's Executive Order 15 (March 21) and Executive Order 17 (April 22) made the DPH orders open-ended (Ex. MET-STL-053, -081); the County extended its stay-at-home order 'until it is rescinded' on April 20, 2020 (Ex. MET-STL-077) and the City replaced its order with Order No. 7 on April 16, 2020 (Ex. MET-STL-008). St. Charles County declared an emergency March 13 and on March 23, 2020 ordered residents to remain at their residences from 12:01 a.m. March 24 without an essential-business list, then deferred to the stricter statewide orders and announced on June 15, 2020 that it would follow Phase 2 with no restrictions from June 16 (Ex. MET-STL-026, -027, -029, -030). Metro Transit cut MetroLink to a weekend schedule and MetroBus to Saturday schedules from March 23, 2020, waived fares and boarded by rear door from March 21, urged essential trips only, and made face coverings mandatory on every vehicle from May 11, 2020 (Ex. MET-STL-038 to -042). The City and County reopened on May 18, 2020 under conditioned orders (City Order No. 8 with the Phase I Standards; County Business and Individual Guidelines) that kept gatherings at 10, required employee masks and daily screening, enforced the State's retail occupancy limits, and kept gyms, banquet rooms, bars without full meals, pools and sporting events closed (Ex. MET-STL-009, -024, -078); the County staged gyms, pools and leagues to June 15, 2020 (Ex. MET-STL-079, -071). 2020 Q3: universal face coverings from July 3, 2020 (City Order No. 11; County order of July 2) (Ex. MET-STL-012, -058, -102); the County's Second Amended (June 26), Third Amended (July 29) and face-covering amendments (Aug. 21) (Ex. MET-STL-108, -061, -060); youth sports limited to practice with no games or spectators from July 20, 2020 (Ex. MET-STL-070); the City's resurgence orders holding large venues at 75 percent (July 18) and then cutting bars, restaurants, nightclubs and large venues to 50 percent with an 11:00 p.m. closing from August 13, 2020, extended September 8 until rescinded (Ex. MET-STL-013 to -015); and in the Metro East, Region 4's Tier 1 mitigations from August 18, 2020 (bars and restaurants closed at 11:00 p.m., no bar seating, tables of six, meetings capped at the lesser of 25 or 25 percent, reception halls closed) and Tier 2 from September 2, 2020 (no indoor bar or restaurant service) (Ex. MET-STL-033, -109). 2020 Q4: the County's Fourth Amended business order (Oct. 5, 2020) (Ex. MET-STL-062); the winter re-tightening of November 12-18, 2020: the County's Safer At Home Order effective November 17 (residents to stay at their residences except specified purposes; gatherings of more than 10 prohibited; all public-facing businesses at 25 percent; restaurants barred from all indoor service; bars carryout only; businesses ordered to deny entry to the unmasked) (Ex. MET-STL-074), its Second and Third Amended face-covering orders lowering the age to 5 and making denial of entry mandatory (Ex. MET-STL-063, -089, -080), and the City's Order No. 15 prohibiting private gatherings above 10 (Ex. MET-STL-016); Illinois Tier 3 statewide from November 20, 2020 (Ex. MET-STL-035); the Third Judicial Circuit's Resurgence Response orders continuing felony jury trials and remote proceedings (Ex. MET-STL-086). 2021 Q1: the County's Amended Safer At Home Order restored indoor dining at 25 percent with a 10:00 p.m. curfew from January 4, 2021 (Ex. MET-STL-064, -104), moved to 50 percent on February 10 (Ex. MET-STL-105) and, by the Fourth Amended Order of March 8, 2021, kept the stay-at-residence rule, 50 percent caps, 25 percent for banquet facilities, gatherings of 20 indoors and 30 outdoors and a midnight curfew (Ex. MET-STL-075); the City moved its bars and restaurants to a midnight close on March 8, 2021 (Ex. MET-STL-017); the Metro East left Tier 3 on January 22 and reached Phase 4 on February 4, 2021 (indoor dining for parties of 10, 50 percent capacity) (Ex. MET-STL-036, -037). 2021 Q2: the County's Fifth Amended Order of April 8 (Ex. MET-STL-106); the City's Order No. 17 effective May 3, 2021 ended percentage caps but kept masks, distancing, screening and a 3:00 a.m. bar close (Ex. MET-STL-018); the County's Reopen STL Order of May 3, 2021 ended percentage caps but kept distancing and masks (Ex. MET-STL-068, -096); the County rescinded that order May 13, 2021 and the City rescinded Orders 1-17 on May 14, 2021 at 11:30 a.m. (Ex. MET-STL-107, -098, -019), leaving in force the County's Sixth Amended Quarantine and Isolation Order, Residential Living Facilities reporting order, non-congregate sheltering order and Rapid Notification Order, the emergency declarations, and the federal transit mask rule applied by Metro Transit (Ex. MET-STL-067, -056, -083, -043); Illinois reached the Bridge Phase May 14 and Phase 5 June 11, 2021. 2021 Q3: the Delta wave brought the metro back under orders. The City proclaimed a new public health emergency July 23, 2021 and imposed an indoor and public-transportation mask requirement on everyone age 5 and older, vaccinated or not, from 12:01 a.m. July 26, 2021, continued by Order No. 2 (signed August 30, 2021, effective on Board of Aldermen approval) and Order No. 3 (October 1, 2021) (Ex. MET-STL-020 to -023); the County imposed the same requirement from 8:00 a.m. July 26, 2021 (Ex. MET-STL-069, -090). The Attorney General sued both the same day (State ex rel. Schmitt v. Page, No. 21SL-CC03334, St. Louis County Circuit Court), the County Council voted 5-2 on July 27 to terminate the County order under RSMo § 67.265 (HB 271, effective June 15, 2021, Ex. MET-STL-025), and the Circuit Court enjoined the County's enforcement by TRO on August 3 and preliminary injunction on August 20, 2021; the City's order was never enjoined (Ex. MET-STL-091 to -093). Throughout the quarter the County's quarantine and isolation, residential-facility and rapid-notification orders and both emergency declarations stayed in force; Metro Transit required masks on every vehicle, platform and transit center under the TSA directive; and in the Metro East the Illinois indoor mask mandate took effect August 30, 2021, with the State's school-mask and health-care-worker vaccination orders (State file). St. Charles County issued no mask order at any time and no business order after March 2020, and is covered by the statewide orders, its own March 2020 stay-at-residence order, its April 2020 health-facility and reporting orders, and the City, County, Metro Transit and federal instruments reaching its commuting workforce and customers.

The six quarters

What the record shows in force in St. Louis on the first day and the last day of each quarter. Every exhibit named here opens its record. The orders of March 13 to 31, 2020 belong to the second quarter of 2020, because wages paid after March 12, 2020 fall in that quarter.

Quarter	First day	Last day
2020 Q2Second quarter of 2020The quarter nationally →	Apr. 1, 2020: City Stay Home Order No. 5 (Ex. MET-STL-006) and Order No. 3/6 dine-in prohibition (Ex. MET-STL-004, -007); County Stay at Home Order (Ex. MET-STL-044) and restaurant/bar and gatherings orders (Ex. MET-STL-046, -047); County Amended Quarantine and Isolation Order (Ex. MET-STL-055); St. Charles County stay-at-residence order of Mar. 23 (Ex. MET-STL-027); Metro Transit reduced service, rear-door boarding, essential trips only (Ex. MET-STL-038, -039); Illinois stay-at-home EO 2020-10 (State file). Statewide Missouri DHSS order of Mar. 21 (gatherings >10; dine-in closed) and, from Apr. 6, Stay Home Missouri (State file).	June 30, 2020: City Order No. 8 with Phase I Standards (gatherings ≤10; masks in closed public spaces; employee screening; State retail capacity; banquet rooms and gyms closed) and Orders 9-10 (Large Venues 50 percent from June 22) (Ex. MET-STL-009, -024, -010, -011); County Second Amended Business and Individual Order (June 26, eff. June 29) (Ex. MET-STL-108) with gyms open under protocols from June 15 (Ex. MET-STL-071); County quarantine, residential-facility and rapid-notification orders (Ex. MET-STL-055, -056, -083); Metro Transit masks mandatory (Ex. MET-STL-041); St. Charles County: no restrictions after June 16 (Ex. MET-STL-030); Illinois Phase 4 from June 26 (50 percent; gatherings ≤50; masks) (State file).
2020 Q3Third quarter of 2020The quarter nationally →	July 1, 2020: as June 30; City face-covering Order No. 11 effective July 3 and County face-covering order effective July 3 issued July 2 (Ex. MET-STL-012, -058); Illinois Phase 4 and EO 2020-32 masks (State file).	Sept. 30, 2020: City Orders 8, 9, 11, 13 (extended by 14): bars, restaurants, nightclubs and large venues at 50 percent, 11:00 p.m. close, masks age 9+, gatherings ≤10 (Ex. MET-STL-009, -012, -014, -015); County Third Amended Business Order (July 29) and Amended Face Coverings Order (Aug. 21, eff. Aug. 24), youth sports practice-only rule (Ex. MET-STL-061, -060, -070); County quarantine/isolation, residential-facility and rapid-notification orders; Metro Transit masks; Metro East: Region 4 Tier 2 mitigations (no indoor bar or restaurant service; gatherings ≤ lesser of 25 or 25 percent; 11 p.m. close) (Ex. MET-STL-033, -109); St. Charles County: State Phase 2 only.
2020 Q4Fourth quarter of 2020The quarter nationally →	Oct. 1, 2020: as Sept. 30; County Fourth Amended Business Order followed Oct. 5 (Ex. MET-STL-062).	Dec. 31, 2020: County Safer At Home Order (eff. Nov. 17): stay at residence except specified purposes, gatherings ≤10, businesses 25 percent, restaurants no indoor service, bars carryout only (Ex. MET-STL-074); County Third Amended Face Coverings Order (age 5+; mandatory denial of entry) (Ex. MET-STL-080); City Orders 8, 9, 11, 13, 14 and 15 (private gatherings ≤10; bars/restaurants 50 percent, 11 p.m.) (Ex. MET-STL-016); County quarantine (Second Amended, Nov. 2, 2020), residential-facility and rapid-notification orders; Metro Transit masks; Metro East: Illinois Tier 3 statewide from Nov. 20 (Ex. MET-STL-035); Third Judicial Circuit Resurgence Response AOs (Ex. MET-STL-086); St. Charles County: advisory only (Ex. MET-STL-032).
2021 Q1First quarter of 2021The quarter nationally →	Jan. 1, 2021: as Dec. 31, 2020; County Amended Safer At Home Order effective Jan. 4 (indoor dining 25 percent, 10 p.m. curfew) (Ex. MET-STL-064, -104).	Mar. 31, 2021: County Fourth Amended Safer At Home Order (Mar. 8): stay-at-residence rule, 50 percent caps, banquet 25 percent, gatherings 20/30, midnight curfew (Ex. MET-STL-075); County Third Amended Face Coverings Order; County Fifth Amended Quarantine and Isolation Order (Mar. 15) (Ex. MET-STL-066); City Orders 8, 9, 11, 13-16 (50 percent; midnight close; masks; gatherings ≤10) (Ex. MET-STL-017); Metro Transit masks under the TSA directive from Feb. 1, 2021; Metro East: Illinois Phase 4 from Feb. 4 (indoor dining parties ≤10; 50 percent) (Ex. MET-STL-037).
2021 Q2Second quarter of 2021The quarter nationally →	Apr. 1, 2021: as Mar. 31; County Fifth Amended Safer At Home Order Apr. 8 (Ex. MET-STL-106); County Sixth Amended Quarantine and Isolation Order Apr. 21 (Ex. MET-STL-067); City Order No. 17 from May 3 (Ex. MET-STL-018); County Reopen STL Order May 3 (Ex. MET-STL-068).	June 30, 2021: City Order No. 18 (advisory; Orders 1-17 rescinded May 14) (Ex. MET-STL-019); County: Reopen STL Order rescinded May 13; in force: Executive Orders 10 and 17, Sixth Amended Quarantine and Isolation Order, Residential Living Facilities Reporting Requirement Order, Amended Non-Congregate Sheltering Order, Rapid Notification Order (Ex. MET-STL-098, -067, -056, -083, -048, -081); Metro Transit masks (Ex. MET-STL-043); Metro East: Illinois Phase 5 from June 11 (State file); RSMo § 67.265 in force from June 15 (Ex. MET-STL-025).
2021 Q3Third quarter of 2021The quarter nationally →	July 1, 2021: County Executive Orders 10 and 17 (emergency; DPH authority); County Sixth Amended Quarantine and Isolation Order, Residential Living Facilities Reporting Requirement Order, Amended Non-Congregate Sheltering Order, Rapid Notification Order (Ex. MET-STL-067, -056, -083, -098); City Mayoral Proclamation of Mar. 13, 2020 (Ex. MET-STL-001); Metro Transit mask requirement under TSA SD 1582/84-21-01 (Ex. MET-STL-043); Illinois Phase 5 conditions (State file); RSMo § 67.265 (Ex. MET-STL-025).	Sept. 30, 2021: City Mayoral Proclamation of July 23, 2021 and Health Commissioner's Order No. 2 (2021) (indoor and transit masks, all persons 5+, vaccinated or not) (Ex. MET-STL-020, -022; Order No. 3 followed Oct. 1, Ex. MET-STL-023); County Face Covering Order of July 26, 2021 (enforcement barred by the Aug. 20, 2021 preliminary injunction; Ex. MET-STL-069, -093); County quarantine and isolation, residential-facility, non-congregate sheltering and rapid-notification orders; County Executive Orders 10 and 17; Metro Transit masks (TSA directive extended to Jan. 18, 2022); Metro East: Illinois indoor mask mandate (EO 2021-20, from Aug. 30, 2021), school masking (EO 2021-18, Aug. 4, 2021) and health-care-worker/school-personnel vaccination-or-testing (EO 2021-22, Sept. 3, 2021) (State file; numbers to be verified there); St. Charles County: statewide and federal instruments only.

The end of general restrictions

The day the general business restrictions ended in St. Louis, the instrument that ended them, and what the record shows still in force afterward. The end of the general orders is not the end of the record: sector rules, standing duties and the federal layer continue past it.

End of general restrictions

May 14, 2021

2021-05-14 (City); 2021-05-13 (County); 2020-06-16 (St. Charles County); 2021-06-11 (Metro East, statewide)

Instrument City of St. Louis: Health Commissioner's Order No. 17 (effective May 3, 2021) ended percentage occupancy caps; Health Commissioner's Order No. 18 (May 14, 2021, 11:30 a.m.) rescinded Orders 1-17 (Ex. MET-STL-018, -019). St. Louis County: Reopen STL Order (May 3, 2021) ended percentage caps; Rescission of the Reopen STL Order (May 13, 2021) ended the County's general mask, distancing and capacity requirements (Ex. MET-STL-068, -107, -098). St. Charles County: announcement of June 15, 2020 that the County would follow the State's Phase 2 from June 16, 2020 (Ex. MET-STL-030). Metro East (Illinois): statewide Phase 5, June 11, 2021 (Illinois State file).

What remained in force

City: Mayoral Proclamation of Mar. 13, 2020 (renewed July 23, 2021); the 2021 mask series from July 26, 2021. County: Executive Orders 10 and 17 (state of emergency; DPH order-making authority); Sixth Amended Quarantine and Isolation Order (Apr. 21, 2021); Residential Living Facilities Reporting Requirement Order; Amended Non-Congregate Sheltering Order; Rapid Notification Order (Mar. 31, 2020) (all recited as continuing May 14, 2021, Ex. MET-STL-098); the Face Covering Order from July 26, 2021 (enforcement enjoined Aug. 3/Aug. 20, 2021). Metro Transit: mask requirement on all vehicles, platforms and transit centers under TSA SD 1582/84-21-01 (to Sept. 13, 2021, extended). Metro East: Illinois Phase 5 conditions, the Aug. 30, 2021 indoor mask mandate, school masking and health-care-worker vaccination orders (State file).

The State and the local orders

Missouri did not preempt local orders during 2020 or the first half of 2021: the Governor's June 2020 statement that 'no statewide order would follow' left the City and County orders as the operative limits, and the State's April 2020 orders expressly permitted stricter local rules. HB 271 (RSMo § 67.265), approved and effective June 15, 2021 (Ex. MET-STL-025), did not bar local orders; it limited an order that closes, partially closes or restricts access to businesses, churches, schools or places of assembly during a chapter 44 emergency to 30 days in any 180-day period unless extended by a simple majority of the governing body (21 days and a two-thirds vote absent an emergency) and empowered the governing body to terminate such an order by simple majority. The St. Louis County Council invoked it on July 27, 2021 (5-2) against the County's July 26, 2021 Face Covering Order; in State ex rel. Schmitt v. Page, No. 21SL-CC03334 (St. Louis County Cir. Ct.), Judge Ellen Ribaudo entered a TRO on Aug. 3, 2021 and a preliminary injunction on Aug. 20, 2021 barring the County from enforcing the order, holding the State likely to prevail on the Council's power to terminate it; the City of St. Louis was a defendant but its order was not enjoined, and the City conformed its later orders (Nos. 2 and 3 of 2021) to the statute by making them effective on Board of Aldermen approval for 30-day terms (Ex. MET-STL-022, -023, -091 to -093). Post-period: on Nov. 22, 2021 the Cole County Circuit Court (Green, J.) in Robinson v. DHSS declared the DHSS regulations (19 CSR 20-20.040 and 20-20.050) that delegated order-making power to local health directors unconstitutional and existing orders issued unilaterally by local health authorities 'null and void'; the Attorney General declined to appeal; St. Louis County rescinded its mask rule Dec. 9, 2021 (Ex. MET-STL-095). That judgment postdates the six claimable quarters; Illinois did not preempt local orders (the Governor's orders permitted stricter local rules); the Metro East counties issued no separate closure or mask orders and applied the State's regional and statewide instruments.

Third quarter of 2021

July 1 through September 30, 2021, the last claimable quarter: the instruments the record shows in force in St. Louis. An order in force on any day of the quarter is an order in force during it. The quarter nationally →

In force (21)

MET-STL-020
MET-STL-021
MET-STL-022
MET-STL-069
MET-STL-090
MET-STL-067
MET-STL-056
MET-STL-083
MET-STL-098
MET-STL-048
MET-STL-081
MET-STL-103
MET-STL-001
MET-STL-043
MET-STL-041
MET-STL-025
Illinois EO 2021-20 (indoor masks from Aug. 30, 2021) (State file)
Illinois EO 2021-18 (school masks, Aug. 4, 2021) (State file)
Illinois EO 2021-22 (health-care and school personnel vaccination or testing, Sept. 3, 2021) (State file)
Missouri EO 21-07 / 21-09 (state of emergency continued) (State file)
TSA SD 1582/84-21-01 series and CDC conveyance mask order, 86 Fed. Reg. 8025 (FED-A)

Sector chronology

How the orders reached each kind of business in St. Louis, sector by sector, in the order the record gives. Open a sector to read its chronology; every exhibit named opens its record.

Restaurants and bars

City: dine-in prohibited Mar. 19-May 17, 2020 (Orders 3, 6); reopened May 18 under Phase I standards; 50 percent and 11 p.m. close Aug. 13, 2020-Mar. 7, 2021; midnight close Mar. 8-May 2, 2021; distancing-based capacity and 3 a.m. close May 3-14, 2021; masks for all patrons and staff July 26, 2021 onward. County: dine-in prohibited Mar. 19-May 17, 2020; reopened May 18 (bars without full meals curbside only until June 2020); indoor service prohibited Nov. 17, 2020-Jan. 3, 2021; 25 percent and 10 p.m. curfew Jan. 4-Feb. 9, 2021; 50 percent and 11 p.m. Feb. 10-Mar. 7; 50 percent and midnight Mar. 8-May 2; distancing-based May 3-13, 2021; masks July 26, 2021 (enjoined Aug. 3). Metro East: closed to on-premises consumption Mar. 16-May 28, 2020 (EO 2020-07, 2020-10); outdoor only Phase 3 (May 29-June 25); Phase 4 indoor at 25 percent/50 percent from June 26; Region 4 Tier 1 Aug. 18 (11 p.m. close, no bar seating, tables ≤6); Tier 2 Sept. 2 (no indoor service); Tier 3 Nov. 20, 2020; Tier 2 Jan. 22, 2021; Phase 4 Feb. 4 (parties ≤10, 50 percent); Bridge May 14; Phase 5 June 11, 2021; masks Aug. 30, 2021.

Retail

City and County: non-essential retail closed Mar. 23-May 17, 2020; State retail occupancy limits (25 percent under 10,000 sq. ft., 10 percent over) enforced locally May 18-June 15, 2020; masks required for entry from July 3, 2020 with posting and denial-of-entry duties; County 25 percent occupancy Nov. 17, 2020-Feb. 9, 2021, 50 percent Feb. 10-May 2, 2021; percentage caps ended May 3, 2021; masks ended May 13-14, 2021; masks again from July 26, 2021 (City throughout Q3 2021; County enjoined Aug. 3). Metro East: non-essential retail closed Mar. 21-Apr. 30, 2020; curbside from May 1; Tier 3 retail 25 percent Nov. 20, 2020-Jan. 2021; Phase 4 50 percent to June 11, 2021.

Personal care

City and County: salons, barbers, nail salons, massage and tattoo closed Mar. 23-May 17, 2020 (expressly excluded from the health-care exemption); reopened May 18 under business-specific protocols; masks for staff and customers from July 3, 2020 (face-service exception); County 25 percent/50 percent caps Nov. 2020-May 2021. Metro East: closed Mar. 21-May 28, 2020; Phase 3 reopening May 29 with capacity limits; Tier 3 25 percent Nov. 20, 2020.

Fitness and entertainment

City: gyms and fitness centers, ballrooms, banquet and meeting rooms, playgrounds, pools and contact-sports facilities closed in Phase I (May 18, 2020); large venues 50 percent from June 22, 75 percent July 20, 50 percent Aug. 13, 2020-May 2, 2021. County: gyms closed Mar. 23-June 14, 2020 (indoor reopening June 15 under protocols); sporting events, sports courts, pools closed to June 15, 2020; youth sports practice-only, no games or spectators from July 20, 2020; banquet facilities 25 percent Mar. 2021. Metro East: gyms and theaters closed Mar. 21-June 25, 2020; Phase 4 lesser of 50 or 50 percent; Region 4 reception halls closed Aug. 18, 2020; Tier 3 indoor recreation, theaters and casinos closed Nov. 20, 2020; Phase 4 Feb. 4, 2021.

Hotels and short-term rentals

Hotels and commercial lodging permitted to remain open under City Order No. 4 and the stay-at-home orders; City Phase I hotel standards (Exhibit B) from May 18, 2020 (restaurants, bars, gyms and ballrooms in hotels under the closure and capacity rules; ballrooms and banquet rooms closed in Phase I); County banquet facilities 25 percent Mar. 2021; Illinois Tier 3 hotel measures Nov. 20, 2020.

Offices and telework

City and County stay-at-home orders closed non-essential offices Mar. 23-May 17, 2020 except minimum basic operations and remote work; the County's Apr. 20 extension and Safer At Home Order (Nov. 17, 2020-May 2, 2021) 'encouraged' telework and limited conference rooms and congregating areas of professional businesses to 10; City Phase I standards limited communal office spaces and required employee masks and daily screening (May 18, 2020-May 14, 2021); Illinois Tier 3 required offices to move to remote work where possible (Nov. 20, 2020-Jan. 2021).

Manufacturing

Non-essential manufacturing closed in the City and County Mar. 23-May 17, 2020 except manufacturers 'producing and supplying essential products and services'; reopened May 18 under the City Phase I manufacturing standards and County protocols (masks, screening, distancing); Illinois Tier 3 manufacturing measures Nov. 20, 2020.

Construction

Construction was an essential business under the City (Order No. 4, Mar. 20, 2020) and County (Apr. 20, 2020 order, ¶ F.21) stay-at-home orders, conditioned on distancing and, from May 18, 2020, employee masks and daily screening; permit and inspection offices operated under County Executive Order 12 (County operations) and the City's building restrictions; Madison County service changes (Apr. 1, 2020).

Real estate

Real estate firms essential under the County stay-at-home FAQ (Mar. 30, 2020) subject to distancing; showings and closings depended on the recorder, courts and title offices operating under County Executive Order 12 and Madison County service changes; eviction dockets governed by Third Judicial Circuit AO 2020-M-37 (Dec. 30, 2020) and the federal CDC moratorium (FED-A).

Hospitals and long-term care

County Residential Living Facilities Order (Apr. 2, 2020) and its reporting-requirement successor in force through Q3 2021; St. Charles County Residential Care Facility and Nursing Home Order effective Apr. 9, 2020 and Rapid Notification Order effective Apr. 10, 2020; County Rapid Notification Order Mar. 31, 2020; hospitals exempt from County capacity caps (Nov. 2020) but bound by the quarantine, isolation and reporting orders; the metro's hospital systems (St. Louis Metropolitan Pandemic Task Force) supplied the benchmarks recited in every City order.

Dental and elective health care

Health care providers were essential under the City and County stay-at-home orders; the County's Rapid Notification Order (Mar. 31, 2020, in force through Q3 2021) bound every laboratory and provider; Missouri's statewide elective-procedure guidance and dental board actions are in the State file; Illinois' elective-procedure suspension (Mar. 19-May 11, 2020) is in the IL State file.

Schools

Schools closed statewide in Missouri (Apr. 9, 2020 order) and Illinois (Mar. 17, 2020) (State files); City Order No. 17 (May 3, 2021) imposed 3-foot spacing in primary and secondary schools; County Safer At Home (Nov. 2020) exempted schools from capacity caps but subjected students and staff to the quarantine and isolation orders; Illinois EO 2021-18 (Aug. 4, 2021) required masks in all P-12 schools in Q3 2021 (State file).

Child care

Child care for first responders permitted under the City stay-home order (Mar. 23, 2020); daycare exempt from County caps (Nov. 2020); Illinois emergency child-care licensing (Mar. 2020) posted by Madison County (Ex. MET-STL-084); Illinois EO 2021-18/-20 masks in day care (Q3 2021, State file).

Worship and gatherings

City: assemblies over 1,000 Mar. 13; over 50 Mar. 16; over 10 Mar. 20, 2020 (religious services exempted only from the 1,000 cap); gatherings ≤10 under Orders 4, 7, 8 (May 18, 2020) through May 14, 2021; private gatherings ≤10 Nov. 14, 2020-May 14, 2021. County: crowd limits Mar. 15 and 18; DPH gatherings order Mar. 19; gatherings ≤10 May 18, 2020-Mar. 7, 2021 (Safer At Home Nov. 17); 20 indoors/30 outdoors Mar. 8-May 2, 2021; worship attendance permitted as a stay-at-home exception (Nov. 2020). Metro East: gatherings under 50 (Mar. 16) and under 10 (Mar. 21, 2020); 10 (Phase 3), 50 (Phase 4); Region 4 lesser of 25 or 25 percent Aug. 18, 2020; Tier 3 ≤10 Nov. 20, 2020; Phase 4 ≤50 Feb. 4, 2021; Phase 5 June 11, 2021.

Courts and public offices

City Hall and 1520 Market Street entry restricted Mar. 16, 2020 (Order No. 2); County Executive Order 12 (Mar. 16, 2020) on County operations; 22nd Circuit Division 16B by interactive video (May 2020) under the Missouri Supreme Court's operational directives (State file); Third Judicial Circuit (Madison County) Resurgence Response AOs Nov. 13, 2020-Mar. 1, 2021, felony jury trials continued through Dec. 2020, Zoom hearing schedules in 2021; Madison County COVID-19 service changes (Apr. 2020).

Travel and quarantine

County Amended Quarantine and Isolation Order (spring 2020) through Sixth Amended (Apr. 21, 2021, in force Q3 2021); County travel advisory May 25, 2020 (14-day self-quarantine; employer travel screening); Metro Transit essential trips only (Apr. 1, 2020), service cuts (Mar. 23 and Apr. 20, 2020); Chicago's Emergency Travel Order (ECO-C) did not apply to St. Louis but reached Metro East travelers to Chicago; no St. Louis-area traveler quarantine order.

Face coverings

Metro Transit May 11, 2020 onward (federal TSA directive from Feb. 1, 2021 through Q3 2021); City Order No. 11 July 3, 2020-May 14, 2021 (age 9+); County July 3, 2020 (age 9+), Aug. 24, 2020 (Amended), Nov. 17, 2020 (age 5+; mandatory denial of entry), Nov. 18, 2020 (Third Amended) to May 13, 2021; City July 26, 2021 onward (age 5+, vaccinated or not; Orders 1-3 of 2021); County July 26, 2021 (enjoined Aug. 3; PI Aug. 20); St. Charles County none; Illinois statewide May 1, 2020-June 11, 2021 (relaxed for vaccinated May 17, 2021) and Aug. 30, 2021 onward (State file).

Vaccination mandates

No City or County vaccination-proof order for the public in the period; Illinois EO 2021-22 (Sept. 3, 2021) required vaccination or weekly testing of health-care workers and P-12 and higher-education personnel in the Metro East (State file); federal EO 14042/14043 (FED-B).

On the calendar

Every dated instrument in the St. Louis file across the nineteen months from March 2020 through September 2021, in the order it took effect. A bar takes the color of the instrument's first limitation type and runs from its effective month through its end month; a fading edge marks an instrument whose end the record does not date. Point at a bar for its dates; open the bar for the record.

Emergency declaration 7Stay-at-home 17Business closure 22Telework mandate 8Capacity limit 30Gathering cap 37Face-covering requirement 34Travel and quarantine 6Schools and child care 1Health care orders 4Curfew and hours 14Alcohol and bars 22Events and venues 15Courts and public offices 5Workplace rules 23Quarantine and isolation 8Other 23

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