The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- United States (every public transportation, passenger railroad and fixed-route bus owner/operator under 49 C.F.R. §§ 1582.1(a), 1584.1)
- Level
- Federal
- Authority
- 49 U.S.C. § 114; DHS Acting Secretary's Determination of a National Emergency of Jan. 27, 2021 (FED-057); Executive Order 13998 (FED-061); CDC Order of Jan. 29, 2021 (FED-020)
- Issued
- 2021-01-31 Jan. 31, 2021
- Effective
- 2021-02-01 11:59 p.m. EST (read as 2021-02-01)
- End
- 2021-05-11 ('EXPIRATION DATE May 11, 2021'); cancelled and superseded by SD 1582/84-21-01A (FED-051) (read as 2021-05-11)
- In force
- Feb. 1, 2021 to May 11, 2021
- Quarters
- 2021 Q12021 Q2
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Face-covering requirementTravel and quarantineWorkplace rules
- Addressees
- transit agencies, commuter and intercity passenger railroads (Amtrak), fixed-route bus operators
- every passenger on those conveyances and in their stations
- Functions reached
- WF workforce commuting by transit and rail in every metro
- OP transit agencies and bus companies as regulated operators
- CB customers arriving by transit
- TR intercity rail and bus travel
- Collection
- Federal health, safety and transport layer FED-A
Operative words
A. Owner/Operators must notify passengers with prominent and adequate notice of the mask requirements... 1. Federal law requires wearing a mask while on the conveyance and failure to comply may result in denial of boarding or removal. 2. Refusing to wear a mask is a violation of federal law; passengers may be subject to penalties under federal law. B. Owner/Operators must require that individuals wear a mask, except as described in Sections D., E., or F., as follows: 1. Any persons in a public transportation, passenger railroad, or bus conveyance covered by this SD. 2. Any person in public areas of transportation hubs/facilities controlled by the owner/operator (such as for purposes of purchasing tickets, waiting areas, and platforms for boarding and disembarking) for the duration of travel, boarding, and disembarking.
Enforcement
Civil penalties against owner/operators under 49 U.S.C. § 114 and 49 C.F.R. part 1503; denial of boarding and removal of persons; TSA civil penalties against individuals (announced range $250 to $1,500)
Notes
The TSA layer converts the CDC order into an operator duty enforced by civil penalty: every transit system, commuter railroad and intercity bus line in the country was required to deny boarding to unmasked riders from Feb. 1, 2021.
Retrieval noteText read; the PDF is a scan with OCR layer (some characters garbled, e.g. '1582/84-21-0 I').