{"id":"IA-063","kind":"order","level":"city","jurisdiction":"Cedar Rapids, Iowa","state":"IA","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"Mayor Brad Hart","authority":"Mayoral emergency proclamation authority (Iowa Code § 372.14(2))","instrument":"Emergency Proclamation requiring masks in situations where social distancing is not possible (City Manager file CP-Proclam 100920, Sept. 2, 2020)","title":"Proclamation making face coverings mandatory in public places throughout Cedar Rapids whenever proper social distance cannot be maintained","dateIssued":"2020-09-02","effective":"Immediately (September 2, 2020)","end":"Continued into 2021 (Linn County\u0027s February 8, 2021 notice states the City\u0027s proclamation remained in effect); termination date not verified","startDate":"2020-09-02","endDate":"2021-02-08","quarters":["2020Q3","2020Q4","2021Q1"],"types":["MASK"],"addressees":["every person in Cedar Rapids"],"clause":"City release of September 2, 2020: \u0027Cedar Rapids Mayor Brad Hart today signed an emergency proclamation making face coverings mandatory in public places throughout Cedar Rapids, whenever proper social distance cannot be maintained. The mandate is effective immediately.... Enforcement will focus on education, stressing the health and safety needs of the community. The Cedar Rapids Police Department will have face coverings available to distribute to residents not following the mandate.\u0027 Violations constitute a misdemeanor or municipal infraction as a last resort (KCRG, Sept. 2, 2020).","enforcement":"Education first; misdemeanor or municipal infraction as a last resort","functions":["CB customers masked in Iowa\u0027s second-largest city","SF/DR/SL premises"],"notes":"The proclamation itself is filed as a TIFF image on the City\u0027s site; the saved exhibit is the City\u0027s release describing it.","sourceUrl":"https://www.cedar-rapids.org/news_detail_T6_R1355.php","snapshot":"","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":80754,"grade":"secondary","character":"","description":"","collection":"IA","url":"/library/IA-063","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/IA-063","citation":"Mayor Brad Hart, Emergency Proclamation requiring masks in situations where social distancing is not possible (City Manager file CP-Proclam 100920, Sept. 2, 2020) (Ex. IA-063)","stateName":"Iowa","related":[]}