{"id":"MET-ATL-063","kind":"order","level":"city","jurisdiction":"City of Atlanta, Georgia","state":"GA","metro":"ATL","industry":"","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms","authority":"City of Atlanta Code § 2-181","instrument":"Executive Order of July 28, 2021 (Requiring Mask Use in All Public Places While Indoors) and the Mayor\u0027s release announcing it","title":"Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms Issues Executive Order Requiring Mask Use in All Public Places While Indoors","dateIssued":"2021-07-28","effective":"2021-07-28 (release posted 7:16 p.m.)","end":"Enforcement of local COVID-19 orders more or less restrictive than the State\u0027s suspended by Kemp EO 08.19.21.03 (Aug. 19, 2021) for the duration of the State of Emergency for Continued COVID-19 Economic Recovery; the City order itself was not rescinded within Q3 2021 (rescission not located)","startDate":"2021-07-28","endDate":"2021-08-19","quarters":["2021Q3"],"types":["MASK","EMP"],"addressees":["all persons in a public place, including private businesses and establishments","the public"],"clause":"Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms issued an Executive Order requiring all persons in a public place, including private businesses and establishments, to wear a mask or a cloth face covering over their nose and mouth when indoors. The Order is in response to the rising number of COVID-19 infections, the impact of the Delta variant and new CDC guidance. The CDC announced on July 27, 2021, that individuals should wear a mask indoors in public if in an area of substantial or high transmission. Both Fulton County and DeKalb County are currently designated as areas of substantial transmission (City release, July 28, 2021)","enforcement":"Code § 2-181(b); from Aug. 19, 2021 the State suspended enforcement against organizations (Kemp EO 08.19.21.03)","functions":["SF sales floor (masked entry condition)","CB customers","WF workforce","DR dining rooms (masks indoors except while eating)"],"notes":"Q3 2021 instrument in force from July 28, 2021: the City\u0027s own release. the release is the Mayor\u0027s Office of Communications\u0027 contemporaneous statement.","sourceUrl":"https://www.atlantaga.gov/Home/Components/News/News/13797/672","snapshot":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210728235158id_/https://www.atlantaga.gov/Home/Components/News/News/13797/672","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":276096,"grade":"secondary","character":"","description":"","collection":"MET-ATL","url":"/library/MET-ATL-063","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/MET-ATL-063","citation":"Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, Executive Order of July 28, 2021 (Requiring Mask Use in All Public Places While Indoors) and the Mayor\u0027s release announcing it (Ex. MET-ATL-063)","stateName":"Georgia","related":["SEC-02-GM-019","SEC-06-GM-030","SEC-16-GM-029","SEC-17-GM-073"]}