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Ex. DE-066 Order Primary source read

Emergency Order amending 14 DE Admin. Code 934, DELACARE: Regulations for Family and Large Family Child Care Homes, § 5.3

DDOE Emergency Order: masks required of children kindergarten through twelfth grade, staff, family members and visitors inside family and large family child care homes (repealing and replacing the Aug. 12, 2021 order)

Susan S. Bunting, Ed.D., Secretary of Education, Department of Education (Office of Child Care Licensing) · Delaware (Sector regulator)

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Jurisdiction
Delaware
Level
Sector regulator
Authority
14 Del. C. §§ 122(b)(2), 3003A; 29 Del. C. § 10119
Issued
2021-08-13 Aug. 13, 2021
Effective
2021-08-15 (120 days) (read as 2021-08-15)
End
2021-12-12 (renewed Dec. 14, 2021, Public Archives) (read as 2021-12-12)
In force
Aug. 15, 2021 to Dec. 12, 2021
Quarters
2021 Q3
Limitation types
Face-covering requirementSchools and child care
Addressees
  • licensed family and large family child care homes
  • children, staff, family members, visitors
Functions reached
  • EC family child care homes under mandatory masking
  • WF workforce dependent on home-based child care
Collection
Delaware DE

Operative words

'The August 12, 2021 Emergency Order contained language that was inadvertently broad... [and] is hereby repealed in its entirety and replaced with this Emergency Order.' § 5.3 requires mask use by children in kindergarten through twelfth grade, staff, family members and visitors 'inside the child care facility, regardless of vaccination status' and on child care buses 'regardless of vaccination status.' 'This Emergency Order shall take effect on August 15, 2021 and shall remain in effect for 120 days.... IT IS SO ORDERED the 13th day of August, 2021.'

Enforcement

Child care licensing under 14 Del. C. ch. 30A; 29 Del. C. § 10119

Notes

Companion to DE-045 (centers); the family-home order took effect one day earlier (Aug. 15, 2021).

Retrieval note

Read (key lines). Published 25 Del. Reg. 237 (Sept. 1, 2021).