EXECUTIVE ORDER 15
Restrictions on Activities to Limit Spread ofCO VID-I 9

WHEREAS, on March 13, 2020, a state of emergency was declared in St. Louis County
relating to the immediate and signi?cant risk posted to the health, safety, wellbeing of the people

of St. Louis County that is presented by 9;

WHEREAS, in a short period of time, 9 has rapidly spread, causing sickness

and even a death of St. Louis County residents, necessitating more signi?cant protocols;

WHEREAS, additional measures are necessary for the preservation of the public health
and safety throughout St. Louis County, and to ensure that the basic daily needs of people and

essential businesses are met; and

WHEREAS, the Director of the Department of Public Health and other public health
experts have recommended that these additional measures include signi?cant limitations on
activities that could allow to spread throughout the community, such as requiring
people to stay at home other than engaging in certain activities, requiring that non-essential
businesses and social service organizations cease non-essential activities, and other similar

restrictions;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, Sam Page, County Executive, St. Louis County, Missouri, do

hereby ORDER and DECLARE the following:

1. The Director of the Department of Public Health shall take such actions as are
necessary to ensure that people stay home when possible, that people are free to meet their basic

needs, and that essential services will still be provided. In particular, the order should:

a.

Protect Basic Activities: at a minimum, the order should ensure that people
are able to do the following, subject to reasonable restrictions designed to
protect public health and safety:

i. perform tasks essential to the health and safety of individuals, their
families, their household members, and their pets, such as obtaining
medical supplies or medication, visiting a health care professional or
hospital, or obtaining supplies necessary to work from home;

ii. obtain or deliver necessary services or supplies for themselves,
household members, or others necessary to maintain safety and
sanitation;

engage in outdoor walking, jogging, and exercise;

iv. go to work when and where they can without endangering their health
or the health of others;

v. engage in religious worship; and

vi. engage in other activities that are necessary and appropriate.

Protect Basic Needs: at a minimum, the order should ensure that the
following can continue functioning in our community, subject to reasonable
restrictions designed to protect public health and safety:

i. healthcare professionals, facilities, and businesses that provide medical
care, supplies, and medicine;

ii. grocery stores, food producers, and the supply chain that delivers food,
water and other beverages, and household goods to grocery stores;

restaurants and bars for only pickup, curbside, carry-out, take?out, and

delivery services;

iv. banks and other ?nancial institutions;

V. gas stations and auto-repair shops; and

vi. other businesses as may be appropriate and necessary to provide for

the basic needs of our community.

Protect Social Services: at a minimum, the order should ensure that schools
and social services organizations can continue providing food, shelter,
services, and care for children, economically disadvantaged people, people
with physical, intellectual, or development disabilities, and other communities
in need. The order should include special provisions applying to people
experiencing homelessness and people for whom staying at home is unsafe,
such as people experiencing domestic violence.
Protect Workers: at a minimum, the order should ensure that workers can
continue doing their jobs if they can do so without undermining their health or
the health of others, understanding that health and safety may require some
workers to work from home. Also, the order should ensure that labor can
continue engaging in essential activities like administering health and welfare
funds and checking on the safety of their members provided they do so in
accordance with appropriate health restrictions. The order should provide
ef?cient remedies when even essential businesses violate it.
Protect Businesses: at a minimum, the order should ensure that essential
businesses may continue providing for the community?s needs and that non-

essential businesses can maintain basic operations while their employees work

from home. The order should also protect the ability of employees to get what
they need to work from home.

f. Encourage Social Distancing: the order should also ensure people and
businesses practice social distancing and other public health measures as may
be appropriate.

2. The Director of the Department of Public Health may promulgate such mandatory
or advisory rules, orders, policies, and guidance as is necessary and appropriate to implement
this Executive Order or to de?ne any of the terms used in this order. Mandatory rules, orders, or
policies so promulgated shall have the force of law to the greatest extent permitted by federal,
state, and county law.

3. This order shall be effective immediately upon my execution hereof, but the order
issued by the Director of the Department of Public Health shall impose the restrictions described
herein on March 23, 2020 and shall continue impose those restrictions for at least thirty days
unless she deems that a shorter period can be imposed while still protecting public health and
safety.

SO ORDERED this twenty-?rst day of March, 2020.

ST. LOUIS COUNTY, MISSOURI

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Sam Vage 

County Executive