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The record
- Jurisdiction
- United States Coast Guard; nationwide (all commercial vessels)
- Level
- Federal
- Authority
- 42 U.S.C. 268; 33 C.F.R. 160.111; EO 13998 sec. 2
- Issued
- 2021-02-01 Feb. 1, 2021
- Effective
- 2021-02-01 (CDC order effective 11:59 p.m. Feb. 1, 2021) (read as 2021-02-01)
- End
- 2021-03-22 (superseded by Change 1) (read as 2021-03-22)
- In force
- Feb. 1, 2021 to Mar. 22, 2021
- Quarters
- 2021 Q1
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Face-covering requirementTravel and quarantineWorkplace rules
- Addressees
- owners, operators and crews of all commercial vessels
- passengers
- ferry operators
- Functions reached
- TV ferries, water taxis, excursion and passenger vessels
- DR crews of all commercial vessels
- CB passengers (boarding denied without mask)
- EMP vessel operating procedures
- Character
- context
- Collection
- Coast Guard and ports AGY-USCG-PORTS
Operative words
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued order, Requirement for Persons to Wear Masks while on Transportation Hubs, 29JAN2021, requires all persons travelling on all commercial vessels to wear a mask. This Order requires conveyance operators to use best efforts to ensure that any person on the conveyance wears a mask when boarding, disembarking, and for the duration of travel.... Under Title 42 of the United States Code section 268, the Coast Guard is charged with enforcing CDC quarantine orders. Owners, operators, and crew of vessels that fail to implement the mask wearing order above may be subject to civil or criminal penalties from the CDC.... Vessels that have not implemented the mask requirement may be issued a Captain of the Port (COTP) order directing the vessel's movement and operations; repeated failure to impose the mask mandate could result in civil penalties and/or criminal action.
Enforcement
42 U.S.C. 268, 271 (CDC penalties); COTP orders under 33 C.F.R. 160.111; 46 U.S.C. 70036
Notes
The maritime implementation of the federal transportation mask order; ferries, tour boats, fishing charters, offshore crew boats and towing vessels reached.
Retrieval noteText read in full. it carries no independent legal effect. The enforceable instruments are the COTP orders, 33 C.F.R. 160.216, 33 C.F.R. 105.125 and the CDC orders the bulletin describes (already cited in the record's enforcement field). Cite the bulletin as evidence of the operating regime, not as an order).