The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Central Ohio Transit Authority (COTA) service area (Franklin County and portions of adjoining counties) · Columbus · Ohio
- Level
- Sector regulator
- Authority
- R.C. 306.35 (transit authority powers over the operation of its system); COTA rider rules; from Feb. 1, 2021, CDC Order Requiring Masks on Conveyances and TSA security directives (federal)
- Effective
- 2020 (COTA's customer mask requirement was in place before the statewide order of July 23, 2020; COTA's Aug. 2020 updates describe operators masked 'as part of COTA and state requirements') (read as 2020-07-23)
- End
- Merged into the federal mask requirement Feb. 1, 2021; COTA lifted its mask requirement after the federal ruling of Apr. 18, 2022 (read as 2021-02-01)
- In force
- July 23, 2020 to Feb. 1, 2021
- Quarters
- 2020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Face-covering requirementTravel and quarantine
- Addressees
- transit customers
- COTA operators and employees
- Functions reached
- WF workforce commuting by transit
- TV travel
- CB customers arriving by transit
- Collection
- Columbus MET-CMH
Operative words
You will see our vehicle signage reminding you to #MaskUpCBUS!, supporting mask wearing policies aboard our vehicles and within our community.
Enforcement
Transit authority rider policy; from Feb. 1, 2021 federal law (42 U.S.C. § 264; 86 Fed. Reg. 8025) with TSA enforcement
Notes
COTA's separate release 'COTA to Require Customers to Wear Masks' (2020; undated on the current site) lists the measures taken since early March 2020: focused service (Mar. 16), fare suspension and rear-door boarding (Mar. 19), employee temperature checks (Apr. 1), Essential Travel Only policy (Apr. 3), rider cap of 20 per vehicle, sanitizing.
Retrieval noteAgency release describing its own policy.