The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Indiana
- Level
- State
- Authority
- Ind. Code ch. 10-14-3; Ind. Code ch. 16-19-3
- Issued
- 2020-07-24 July 24, 2020
- Effective
- 2020-07-27 12:01 a.m. (read as 2020-07-27)
- End
- 2020-08-26 11:59 p.m. by its terms; extended by EO 20-42 to Sept. 25, 2020, continued in EO 20-43 and 20-46 (Stage 5), EO 20-48, 20-50, 20-53, 21-01, 21-02, 21-06 and 21-09 through 11:59 p.m. Apr. 5, 2021; K-12 requirement continued through June 30, 2021 (EO 21-15) (read as 2021-06-30)
- In force
- July 27, 2020 to June 30, 2021
- Quarters
- 2020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q2
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Face-covering requirementSchools and child careWorkplace rules
- Addressees
- every individual within the State of Indiana age eight and older
- all public and private K-12 educational institutions
- State and local health departments
- Functions reached
- SF
- DR
- SL
- FC
- OF (indoor public areas)
- WF
- CB
- IN in-person instruction
- Collection
- Indiana IN
Operative words
every individual within the State of Indiana shall wear a face covering over the nose and mouth when: a. inside a business, public building, or other indoor place open to the public. This does not extend, however, to private offices, private workspaces or meetings in which six feet of social distancing can be achieved and maintained between people not in the same household; b. in an outdoor public space wherever it is not feasible to maintain six feet of social distancing from another person not in the same household; or c. using public transportation or while in a taxi, private car service, or ride-sharing vehicle; unless an exemption outlined in ¶ 4 below applies or when in a private residence.... all public and private K-12 educational institutions shall require all students in grades 3-12 regardless of age, all faculty, all staff, all vendors, all contractors, all volunteers, and all visitors to their educational institutions to wear a face covering or a face shield while physically present in any building, facility or grounds at all times
Enforcement
¶ 5: 'State and local health departments shall be responsible for enforcing compliance through education'; no criminal penalty (the misdemeanor provision of the draft was omitted from the signed order); ¶ 2 preserves the mandatory employee face-covering directives for restaurants, bars, gyms and personal-service businesses 'for the duration of the public health emergency'; schools responsible for enforcement plans; local governments and school corporations may impose stricter rules (¶ 7)
Notes
Exemptions for children under 8, medical conditions, eating and drinking while seated, exercise with distancing, religious services and the like (¶ 4 a-o). Compliance paragraph warns of 're-imposition of more stringent measures such as business closures.'
Retrieval noteGovernor's release of July 24, 2020 (Ex. IN-087) corroborates the effective date and the removal of the penalty provision.