Executive Order No. 653 · Feb 23, 2026

Amending Executive Order No. 652 to extend the temporary ban on motor vehicle travel to Dukes County

Issued by Governor Maura Healey. Massachusetts Register No. 1569.

In brief

What it does: Executive Order No. 652 is hereby amended by striking the words “Bristol, Plymouth, and Barnstable counties,” each time they appear, and replacing them with the words “Bristol, Plymouth, Barnstable, and Dukes counties.”

In the order’s own words, shortened. The full text is on mass.gov.

Read the order on mass.gov

From the Trial Court Law Libraries’ list of governors’ executive orders on mass.gov, as published there. Any order that later changes this one is listed there too.