{"id":"NJ-050","kind":"order","level":"state","jurisdiction":"New Jersey","state":"NJ","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"Governor Philip D. Murphy","authority":"N.J.S.A. App. A:9-33 et seq.; N.J.S.A. 26:13-1 et seq.","instrument":"Executive Order No. 242 (2021)","title":"End of the general business restrictions: indoor public-space mask requirement lifted; six-foot capacity rules for dining and businesses rescinded; full capacity for retail, personal care, health clubs, recreation, casinos and racetracks (May 28, 2021); indoor gathering limits removed (June 4, 2021); masking and distancing preserved in indoor workplaces not open to the public (EO 192), in health care settings including home health and office-based settings, correctional facilities, shelters and on public transportation; schools and child care unchanged; municipalities may impose indoor mask requirements","dateIssued":"2021-05-24","effective":"Paras. 1-15 and 18 at 6:00 a.m. Friday, May 28, 2021; paras. 16-17 at 6:00 a.m. Friday, June 4, 2021","end":"Until revoked or modified; as the \u0022most recent executive order containing general... mitigation measures regarding face coverings, social distancing, and gatherings\u0022 (as clarified by EO 243), continued by P.L. 2021, c. 103, sec. 1(14) until January 1, 2022 (inference, see notes)","startDate":"2021-05-28","endDate":"2022-01-01","quarters":["2021Q2","2021Q3"],"types":["MASK","EMP","CAP","GATH","HC","TRAV","OTHER"],"addressees":["individuals in indoor public spaces","employers with indoor worksites not open to the public","food or beverage establishments","retail, personal care, health clubs, recreation, casinos, racetracks","health care settings, long-term care, home health, office-based health care, correctional facilities, shelters, public transportation","schools, child care and camps (unchanged)","municipalities and counties"],"clause":"Para. 1: \u0022Effective Friday, May 28, 2021, individuals in indoor public spaces are not required to wear masks, regardless of their ability to maintain six feet of distance from other individuals or groups... Employers and entities overseeing public spaces... are permitted to impose stricter requirements regarding mask-wearing in indoor settings\u0022. Para. 2: \u0022\u0027indoor public spaces\u0027 do not include indoor worksites of employers, as defined in Executive Order No. 192 (2020), that do not open their indoor spaces to the public\u0022. Para. 3: \u0022As provided for in Executive Order No. 192 (2020), all individuals shall continue to wear face coverings in indoor workplaces that are not \u0027indoor public spaces,\u0027 subject only to exceptions that have previously existed... and shall continue to maintain six feet of distance from others to the maximum extent possible\u0022. Para. 5: retail, personal care, health clubs, recreation, casinos and racetracks \u0022are permitted to operate at full capacity without limiting occupancy to a number that ensures that all patrons or groups of patrons entering the facility together can remain six feet apart\u0022. Para. 13: \u0022This Order shall not supersede any masking or social distancing requirements currently in place in indoor or outdoor spaces in health care settings, including but not limited to long-term care facilities, home health care settings, and office-based health care settings, correctional facilities, homeless shelters, and on planes, buses, trains, and other forms of public transportation traveling into, within, or out of the United States and in transportation hubs such as airports and stations.\u0022 Para. 16: \u0022Effective Friday, June 4, 2021, paragraphs 3-5 and 7-8 of Executive Order No. 239 (2021) regarding the numerical limit on indoor gatherings... are hereby rescinded. As a result, there will be no limits applying to indoor gatherings.\u0022 Para. 18: \u0022No municipality, county, or any other agency or political subdivision of this State shall enact or enforce any order... which will or might in any way conflict with any of the provisions of this Order... except that municipalities and counties are permitted under this Order to impose additional restrictions, in response to COVID-19, regarding mask requirements for individuals in indoor public spaces... Paragraph 3 of Executive Order No. 195 (2020) is hereby rescinded.\u0022","enforcement":"Para. 21: N.J.S.A. App. A:9-49 and -50","functions":["SF/DR/SL/FC/AM full capacity from May 28, 2021","EV/BQ/MK indoor gatherings unlimited from June 4, 2021","OF indoor workplaces not open to the public: masks and six-foot distancing continue (EO 192)","HC/IC health care, home health and office-based health care settings: masking and distancing preserved","TR transit masking preserved","WF schools and child care unchanged"],"notes":"The instrument that ended New Jersey\u0027s general business restrictions: May 28, 2021 for capacity, distancing and public masking; June 4, 2021 for indoor gathering limits. What it left in force is stated in its own paragraphs 2, 3, 9, 13 and 18.","sourceUrl":"https://nj.gov/infobank/eo/056murphy/pdf/EO-242.pdf","snapshot":"","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":129271,"grade":"primary","character":"","description":"","collection":"NJ","url":"/library/NJ-050","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/NJ-050","citation":"Governor Philip D. Murphy, Executive Order No. 242 (2021) (May 24, 2021) (Ex. 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