{"id":"MET-AUS-008","kind":"order","level":"city","jurisdiction":"City of Austin, Texas","state":"TX","metro":"AUS","industry":"","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"Mayor Steve Adler","authority":"Tex. Gov\u0027t Code ch. 418; supplemental to Order No. 20200615-013; recites the Governor\u0027s clarification that local governments may require businesses to adopt face-covering policies","instrument":"Order No. 20200617-014 (Mandatory Health \u0026 Safety Policies for Business Employees and Patrons)","title":"Mandatory Health \u0026 Safety Policies for Business Employees and Patrons, supplemental to Order No. 20200615-013","dateIssued":"2020-06-17","effective":"2020-06-17 11:59 p.m. (policies to be developed and implemented on or before June 23, 2020)","end":"2020-07-03 12:01 p.m. (superseded by Order No. 20200702-017, Ex. MET-AUS-010; stated term through 11:59 p.m. August 15, 2020)","startDate":"2020-06-17","endDate":"2020-07-03","quarters":["2020Q2","2020Q3"],"types":["EMP","MASK"],"addressees":["all commercial entities in the City of Austin providing goods or services directly to the public","their employees and visitors"],"clause":"Section 1. Mandatory Health and Safety Policy. Effective as of 11:59 p.m. on June 17, 2020, and continuing through 11:59 p.m. on August 15, 2020, unless extended, modified, or terminated earlier by subsequent order, all commercial entities in the City of Austin providing goods or services directly to the public must develop and implement a health and safety policy or plan related to COVID-19. The health and safety policy or plan must require, at a minimum, that all employees and visitors wear face coverings while on the commercial entity\u0027s business premises or other facilities except in the following circumstances... Section 2. The health and safety policy or plan required by this Order shall be developed and implemented on or before June 23, 2020, and may also include the implementation of other mitigating measures... such as temperature checks or health screenings. All commercial entities must post the health and safety policy or plan required by this Order in a conspicuous location...","enforcement":"No separate penalty clause in the two-page order; enforcement through Order No. 20200615-013 (Austin City Code § 2-6-24; fine not to exceed $1,000)","functions":["EMP written health and safety policy required of every public-facing business","WF employees must wear face coverings on premises","CB customers and visitors must wear face coverings","SF/DR/SL premises operating rules"],"notes":"The first Austin instrument enforced against the business rather than the individual after GA-18\u0027s no-penalty clause; exceptions for persons alone in a single space, with household members, health or security risk, outdoors with six feet, and \u0027when the person is eating or drinking in a restaurant or bar\u0027. Companions: Travis County Order 2020-12 (June 18, Ex. MET-AUS-042) and Hays County 4th Order (June 18, Ex. MET-AUS-073).","sourceUrl":"","snapshot":"","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":575035,"grade":"primary","character":"","description":"","collection":"MET-AUS","url":"/library/MET-AUS-008","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/MET-AUS-008","citation":"Mayor Steve Adler, Order No. 20200617-014 (Mandatory Health \u0026 Safety Policies for Business Employees and Patrons) (June 17, 2020) (Ex. MET-AUS-008)","stateName":"Texas","related":["MET-AUS-010","MET-AUS-042","MET-AUS-073","MET-AUS-007","SEC-23-GM-017","MET-AUS-009","MET-AUS-006","MET-AUS-005","MET-AUS-004","MET-AUS-003","MET-AUS-002"]}