The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- City of Lincoln and Lancaster County · Nebraska
- Level
- County
- Authority
- Neb. Rev. Stat. §§ 71-501 and 71-1630(4); Lincoln Municipal Code ch. 8.18; Lancaster County Resolution R-07-0035 (as in the 2020 local DHMs)
- Issued
- 2021-08-24 Aug. 24, 2021
- Effective
- 2021-08-26
- End
- 2021-09-30 as issued; extended Sept. 28 to Oct. 28, 2021; extended Oct. 26 to late Nov. 2021; extended Nov. 23 to Dec. 23, 2021; expired Dec. 23, 2021 (read as 2021-09-30)
- In force
- Aug. 26, 2021 to Sept. 30, 2021
- Quarters
- 2021 Q3
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Face-covering requirementSchools and child careWorkplace rules
- Addressees
- everyone two years and older in indoor public places countywide regardless of vaccination status
- premises open to the public including schools
- Functions reached
- SF
- DR
- SL
- FC
- IN schools
- OP premises employing workers
- WS
- CB (Lincoln)
- Collection
- Nebraska NE
Operative words
Masks were required indoors throughout the county for 'anyone two years and older, regardless of vaccination status' (KLKN, Aug. 24, 2021); 'Lancaster County was the only Nebraska county maintaining a mask mandate at that time' (KLKN, Sept. 28, 2021)
Enforcement
As a local DHM under LMC § 8.18.170 (city misdemeanor) and Neb. Rev. Stat. § 23-174
Notes
The principal Nebraska local order in force in Q3 2021; issued as hospitals were 'running out of capacity' and the county risk dial moved to orange
Retrieval notePrimary text not reached (lincoln.ne.gov returns 403 to non-browser clients and the Wayback index was throttled); five KLKN reports of Aug. 24, Sept. 28, Oct. 26, Nov. 23 and Dec. 21, 2021 are saved as NE-080, NE-081, NE-106, NE-107 and NE-082.