The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- City of Austin, Texas · Austin · Texas
- Level
- City
- Authority
- City of Austin Ordinance No. 20201203-043 (authority and procedure for Health Authority rules); Tex. Health & Safety Code ch. 121 (local health authority) as the underlying source
- Issued
- 2021-05-18 May 18, 2021
- Effective
- 2021-05-18
- End
- 2021-05-21 (withdrawn and transitioned to guidance by the Notice of Withdrawal, Ex. MET-AUS-020; stated expiry June 15, 2021) (read as 2021-05-21)
- In force
- May 18, 2021 to May 21, 2021
- Quarters
- 2021 Q2
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Gathering capFace-covering requirementSchools and child careWorkplace rulesQuarantine and isolation
- Addressees
- individuals within the City of Austin
- persons in control of sites (every property other than governmental property not a school district, medical facilities and dwellings)
- workers
- sites providing dine-in food or beverage services
- schools and child care programs
- Functions reached
- EMP site rules: face coverings, distancing, signage, worker hygiene
- WF worker handwashing and exclusion of infected workers; quarantine rules
- CB every customer must wear a face covering indoors
- DR dine-in table spacing and party size of ten
- SCH school and child-care sections (§ 5)
- Collection
- Austin MET-AUS
Operative words
2.1.1. Except as provided in 2.1.2 (General Exceptions) and 3.4 (Site Exemptions), an individual must wear a face covering: 2.1.1.1. in an indoor area of a site; or 2.1.1.2. in an outdoor area of site where more than 2,500 individuals are present at any one time.... 3.2. Except as provided in 3.4, a person in control of a site must: 3.2.1. require each individual to wear a face covering except as provided in 2.1.2; 3.2.2. require at least three feet between groups of individuals; 3.2.3. post at least one face covering sign at or near each entrance; and 3.2.4. post... at least one sign in English and at least one sign in Spanish that explains the requirement to remain at least three feet apart and the requirement to wear a face covering. 3.3. A person in control of a site must:... 3.3.4. mandate workers wash their hands for at least twenty seconds...; 3.3.5. for a site that provides dine-in food or beverage services, 3.3.5.1. require at least three feet between tables unless the tables are separated by a solid barrier; and 3.3.5.2. limit the number of individuals who gather, stand, or sit together to ten or less; and 3.3.6. for workers confirmed to have contracted COVID-19, follow all directions from Austin Public Health...
Enforcement
Not recited in the notice; enforcement mechanism supplied by Ordinance No. 20201203-043 (not in library) and, for unincorporated Travis County, by the Commissioners Court order of March 9, 2021 (Ex. MET-AUS-047: $500 citations; nuisance abatement)
Notes
Replaced the April 13, 2021 rules (Ex. MET-AUS-048); introduced the 'fully vaccinated' quarantine exception (2.3.5) and reduced distancing to three feet. The last mandatory general rule in Austin; converted to guidance three days later under GA-36.