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Ex. AGY-ST-TRANSPORT-PORTS-TRANSIT-013 Context (guidance or announcement) Primary source read

NJ TRANSIT 'COVID-19: How We're Protecting You' page (undated; captured about May 6, 2020): customers 'still using the system for ESSENTIAL TRAVEL ONLY' urged to wear a face covering; disinfection every 24 hours; FAQ on service plan, ridership decline and monthly-pass refunds for customers working from home

COVID-19: How We're Protecting You - A Message from NJ TRANSIT President & CEO Kevin S. Corbett

New Jersey Transit Corporation (NJ TRANSIT), President and CEO Kevin S. Corbett · New Jersey (statewide; service into New York and Philadelphia) (State)

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Jurisdiction
New Jersey (statewide; service into New York and Philadelphia) · New Jersey
Level
State
Authority
NJ TRANSIT operating authority under N.J.S.A. 27:25-5; CDC face-covering recommendation of Apr. 3, 2020 recited; Executive Order No. 125 (Apr. 11, 2020; effective Apr. 13, 2020 8:00 p.m.) required face coverings and 50 percent capacity on NJ TRANSIT (not recited on the page as captured)
Issued
2020-05-06 May 6, 2020
Effective
As captured (about May 6, 2020); CDC recommendation of Apr. 3, 2020 recited (read as 2020-05-06)
End
Superseded by the recovery pages of June-July 2020 (Ex. 014, 015) (read as 2020-06-30)
In force
May 6, 2020 to June 30, 2020
Quarters
2020 Q2
Limitation types
Face-covering requirementTravel and quarantine
Addressees
  • NJ TRANSIT customers
Functions reached
  • WF commuting workforce (system described as carrying essential travel only; customers working from home)
  • TV travel
  • CB customer access
Character
context
Collection
State transport, ports and transit authorities AGY-ST-TRANSPORT-PORTS-TRANSIT

Operative words

In light of new recommendations released by the Centers for Disease Control and Preventions (CDC), NJ TRANSIT is urging all of our customers still using the system for ESSENTIAL TRAVEL ONLY to wear a face covering.... If I'm working from home for the remainder of the month to help prevent the spread of COVID-19, and won't need my monthly pass anymore, can I get a refund?

Enforcement

None on the page; the binding mask and capacity rules of the period were Governor Murphy's Executive Order No. 125 (paras. 1-4; N.J.S.A. App. A:9-49, -50 penalties), which the page as captured does not recite

Notes

Service announcement graded context. Its evidentiary value is the carrier's own description, in the second quarter of 2020, of a system reduced to 'ESSENTIAL TRAVEL ONLY' and of monthly-pass holders working from home. The binding New Jersey transit rules of the same weeks (EO 125: 50 percent capacity, face coverings, from Apr. 13, 2020) are in the New Jersey State file.

Retrieval note

Rendered copy of the authority's own page; the page text carries no date and no Wayback banner appears in the text layer. Date_issued is the filename date (May 6, 2020) and is approximate; the 'urging' language predates or omits the mandatory face-covering rule of EO 125 (Apr. 13, 2020).

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