{"id":"PA-015","kind":"order","level":"state","jurisdiction":"Pennsylvania","state":"PA","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"Secretary of Health Rachel Levine, M.D.","authority":"35 P.S. § 521.5; 71 P.S. §§ 532(a), 536; 28 Pa. Code §§ 27.60-27.68","instrument":"Order of the Secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Health Requiring Universal Face Coverings","title":"Order of the Secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Health Requiring Universal Face Coverings","dateIssued":"2020-07-01","effective":"2020-07-01 (immediately, \u0027until further notice\u0027)","end":"Rescinded and superseded Nov. 18, 2020 by the Updated Order (PA-020)","startDate":"2020-07-01","endDate":"2020-11-18","quarters":["2020Q3","2020Q4"],"types":["MASK","EMP"],"addressees":["all individuals","businesses"],"clause":"Section 2: Face Coverings Required. Except as provided in Section 3, individuals are required to wear face coverings if they are: A. outdoors and unable to consistently maintain a distance of six feet from individuals who are not members of their household; B. in any indoor location where members of the public are generally permitted; C. waiting for, riding on, driving, or operating public transportation or paratransit or while in a taxi, private car service or ride-sharing vehicle; D. obtaining services from the healthcare sector in settings including, but not limited to, a hospital, pharmacy, medical clinic, laboratory, physician or dental office, veterinary clinic, or blood bank; or E. engaged in work, whether at the workplace or performing work off-site, when interacting in-person with any member of the public, working in any space visited by members of the public,... or in any room or enclosed area where other people, except for members of the person\u0027s own household or residence, are present when unable to physically distance. (OCR-derived; scanned original; checked against the Nov. 17, 2020 Updated Order\u0027s recital)","enforcement":"Disease Prevention and Control Law, 35 P.S. § 521.20; read \u0027in concert with\u0027 the Apr. 15, 2020 Worker Safety Order and the reopening orders","functions":["SF customers and staff masked","EMP workplace masking","WF transit masking","CB"],"notes":"First statewide universal mask order; the Apr. 15 order had already required masks at work and on customers.","sourceUrl":"https://www.governor.pa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/20200701-SOH-Universal-Face-Coverings-Order.pdf","snapshot":"https://web.archive.org/web/20200701204613/https://www.governor.pa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/20200701-SOH-Universal-Face-Coverings-Order.pdf","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":260827,"grade":"primary","character":"","description":"","collection":"PA","url":"/library/PA-015","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/PA-015","citation":"Secretary of Health Rachel Levine, M.D, Order of the Secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Health Requiring Universal Face Coverings (July 1, 2020) (Ex. PA-015)","stateName":"Pennsylvania","related":["PA-020","DUT-PA-001","DUT-PA-005","SEC-18-GM-017","SEC-20-GM-018","PA-016","PA-116","PA-065","PA-007"]}