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- Jurisdiction
- Louisiana
- Level
- State
- Authority
- La. R.S. 29:721 et seq.; La. R.S. 29:760 et seq.; La. R.S. 29:761
- Issued
- 2020-07-11 July 11, 2020
- Effective
- 2020-07-13
- End
- 2020-07-24; renewed by 96, 101, 110 JBE 2020 to 2020-09-11; mask order continued by 117 JBE 2020 and successors to 2021-04-27 (read as 2020-07-24)
- In force
- July 13, 2020 to July 24, 2020
- Quarters
- 2020 Q3
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Business closureGathering capFace-covering requirementAlcohol and barsWorkplace rules
- Addressees
- every individual in Louisiana
- all businesses or organizations, including all offices of the State and its political subdivisions
- bars with or without food service permits
- parish governing authorities
- Functions reached
- BA bars closed to on-premises consumption
- GATH 50-person cap indoors and outdoors (essential and 50%-capacity businesses exempt)
- MASK every customer and employee in every commercial establishment
- EMP businesses must enforce masks
- SF
- OF
- Collection
- Louisiana LA
Operative words
No bar, with or without a food service permit from the Louisiana Department of Health, shall allow for on premises consumption of any food or drinks. However, any bar shall be allowed to provide for takeout through drive-thru or curbside delivery, including alcoholic beverages.... Crowd sizes are limited to no more than 50 people in any single indoor space at the same time. Crowd sizes are limited to no more than 50 people in any single outdoor space where individuals will be in close proximity to one another... SECTION 4: FACE COVERING ORDER A) Every individual in Louisiana shall wear a face covering over the nose and mouth when inside a commercial establishment or any other building or space open to the public, whether indoor or outdoor. This shall include public or commercial modes of transportation.... C) All businesses or organizations, including all offices of the State of Louisiana, its political subdivisions, and all other governmental offices, shall require all persons who enter the premises to wear a face covering... D) Citations under this Section shall be written only to businesses or organizations, other than religious organizations, that fail to enforce the requirement to wear face coverings.... F) This order shall apply statewide. However, if a parish has less than 100 new positive cases of COVID-19 per 100,000 people in the parish for the immediate preceding two-week cumulative period... the parish may opt out of this face covering requirement
Enforcement
Section 4(D) citations to businesses and organizations that fail to enforce; Section 4(E) trespass enforcement; Section 5 GOHSEP and State Fire Marshal; La. R.S. 29:724(E); upheld in 4 Aces Enterprises v. Edwards (E.D. La. Aug. 17, 2020) (Ex. LA-075)
Notes
Recitals record 36 known outbreaks in bars and 13,514 new cases in seven days; parish opt-out removed by 117 JBE 2020 on Sept. 11, 2020.
Retrieval noteText-layer copy; scanned original at https://gov.louisiana.gov/assets/Proclamations/2020/89-JBE-2020.pdf also read by OCR.