The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Linn County, Iowa · Iowa
- Level
- County
- Authority
- County authority over county-owned facilities (Iowa Code § 331.301) as limited by HF 847 § 29
- Issued
- 2021-08-06 Aug. 6, 2021
- Effective
- 2021-08-09
- End
- Continued into Q4 2021 (post-period) (read as 2021-09-30)
- In force
- Aug. 9, 2021 to Sept. 30, 2021
- Quarters
- 2021 Q3
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Face-covering requirementCourts and public offices
- Addressees
- all employees and visitors to Linn County indoor facilities (including the courthouse, recorder, treasurer and public health offices)
- Functions reached
- CT county offices, recorder and courthouse access conditioned on masks in Q3 2021
- CL closings and recordings in Cedar Rapids
- Collection
- Iowa IA
Operative words
'Effective Monday, August 9, masks will once again be required at all indoor County facilities for employees and visitors, regardless of vaccination status.... Linn County is requiring masks in County-owned facilities to help [slow the spread]... By law, Linn County can require masks inside County-owned facilities, but is prohibited from passing policies requiring property owners to implement a mask policy. "Implementing a mask requirement for County government buildings is one of the last remaining tools left to local governments by the actions taken by Governor Reynolds and the state legislature."'
Enforcement
Facility access rule; the County distributed disposable face coverings
Notes
The County's own statement of HF 847's preemptive effect ('prohibited from passing policies requiring property owners to implement a mask policy').
Retrieval noteCounty's own news release rendered to PDF and read; the Board's resolution or minutes were not separately retrieved.