The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Connecticut (CTtransit divisions) · Connecticut
- Level
- State
- Authority
- Federal conveyance mask order (recited: 'requiring the wearing of masks by travelers') and Governor Lamont's EO 7NNN (recited by link)
- Issued
- 2021-02-11 Feb. 11, 2021
- Effective
- 2021-02-01 11:59 p.m. (CDC order); 2020-08-14 (EO 7NNN) (read as 2021-02-01)
- End
- CDC order continued past Sept. 30, 2021 (vacated Apr. 18, 2022); EO 7NNN's transit provisions continued through Connecticut's emergency (to June 30, 2021 and, for masks in certain settings, under later orders) (read as 2021-09-30)
- In force
- Feb. 1, 2021 to Sept. 30, 2021
- Quarters
- 2021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Face-covering requirementTravel and quarantine
- Addressees
- all persons awaiting, boarding, traveling on or disembarking public transportation
- persons on the premises of transportation hubs
- Functions reached
- WF commuting workforce (federal mask condition on every transit commute in Q1-Q3 2021)
- TV travel
- CB customer access
- Character
- binding
- Collection
- State transport, ports and transit authorities AGY-ST-TRANSPORT-PORTS-TRANSIT
Operative words
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued an Order... on January 29, 2021 requiring the wearing of masks by travelers to prevent spread of the virus that causes COVID-19. People must wear masks that cover both the mouth and nose when awaiting, boarding, traveling on, or disembarking public transportation. People must also wear masks when entering or on the premises of a transportation hub in the United States.
Enforcement
CDC order: 'must' wear; operators 'must use best efforts' to disembark non-compliant persons; TSA civil penalties under the security directive; 42 U.S.C. § 271 criminal penalties recited in the CDC order
Notes
The State bus system's own restatement of the federal conveyance order: the Q1-Q3 2021 instrument for Connecticut transit commuters. Implementing rule under a federal order.
Retrieval noteRendered Wayback capture (Mar. 4, 2021) of cttransit.com/news/upd... (banner URL truncated); page dated 'Thu Feb 11'. Filename date (Mar. 4, 2021) is the capture date.