The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- City of Austin, Texas · Austin · Texas
- Level
- City
- Authority
- Tex. Gov't Code ch. 418; supplemental to Order No. 20200615-013; recites the Governor's clarification that local governments may require businesses to adopt face-covering policies
- Issued
- 2020-06-17 June 17, 2020
- Effective
- 2020-06-17 11:59 p.m. (policies to be developed and implemented on or before June 23, 2020) (read as 2020-06-17)
- End
- 2020-07-03 12:01 p.m. (superseded by Order No. 20200702-017, Ex. MET-AUS-010; stated term through 11:59 p.m. August 15, 2020) (read as 2020-07-03)
- In force
- June 17, 2020 to July 3, 2020
- Quarters
- 2020 Q22020 Q3
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Face-covering requirementWorkplace rules
- Addressees
- all commercial entities in the City of Austin providing goods or services directly to the public
- their employees and visitors
- Functions reached
- EMP written health and safety policy required of every public-facing business
- WF employees must wear face coverings on premises
- CB customers and visitors must wear face coverings
- SF/DR/SL premises operating rules
- Collection
- Austin MET-AUS
Operative words
Section 1. Mandatory Health and Safety Policy. Effective as of 11:59 p.m. on June 17, 2020, and continuing through 11:59 p.m. on August 15, 2020, unless extended, modified, or terminated earlier by subsequent order, all commercial entities in the City of Austin providing goods or services directly to the public must develop and implement a health and safety policy or plan related to COVID-19. The health and safety policy or plan must require, at a minimum, that all employees and visitors wear face coverings while on the commercial entity's business premises or other facilities except in the following circumstances... Section 2. The health and safety policy or plan required by this Order shall be developed and implemented on or before June 23, 2020, and may also include the implementation of other mitigating measures... such as temperature checks or health screenings. All commercial entities must post the health and safety policy or plan required by this Order in a conspicuous location...
Enforcement
No separate penalty clause in the two-page order; enforcement through Order No. 20200615-013 (Austin City Code § 2-6-24; fine not to exceed $1,000)
Notes
The first Austin instrument enforced against the business rather than the individual after GA-18's no-penalty clause; exceptions for persons alone in a single space, with household members, health or security risk, outdoors with six feet, and 'when the person is eating or drinking in a restaurant or bar'. Companions: Travis County Order 2020-12 (June 18, Ex. MET-AUS-042) and Hays County 4th Order (June 18, Ex. MET-AUS-073).
Retrieval noteSignature-block OCR garbled, date from the order's own effective clause and the City Clerk's filing stamp (June 17, 2020).