Skip to content
The COVID Project
  1. Library
  2. Education and Child Care
  3. SEC-15-075

Ex. SEC-15-075 Order Primary source read

Proclamation Number 167 JBE 2021

COVID-19 Public Health Emergency - Mitigation Measures - Statewide Mask Mandate (renewal after Hurricane Ida)

Governor John Bel Edwards · Louisiana (State)

The COVID Project

The record

Jurisdiction
Louisiana
Level
State
Authority
La. R.S. 29:721 et seq.; La. R.S. 29:760 et seq.
Issued
2021-09-01 Sept. 1, 2021
Effective
2021-09-01 (renewing 137 JBE 2021) (read as 2021-09-01)
End
Renewed by 178 JBE 2021 (Sept. 29, 2021); indoor mask requirement lifted Oct. 26/27, 2021 except K-12 schools (read as 2021-09-29)
In force
Sept. 1, 2021 to Sept. 29, 2021
Quarters
2021 Q3
Limitation types
Face-covering requirementSchools and child careWorkplace rules
Addressees
  • every individual indoors outside a private residence; operators of businesses and organizations
Functions reached
  • IN
  • EC
  • TR
  • AC
  • CP
  • FS
  • WF
  • CB
Collection
Education and Child Care SEC-15

Operative words

WHEREAS, by the time this order is in effect, the State will continue to have some of the highest numbers of COVID-related hospitalizations it has seen, while simultaneously in the midst of recovering from Hurricane Ida... WHEREAS, based on current CDC recommendations and the State's rapid increase in cases and hospitalizations, the Louisiana Department of Health has recommended to the Governor to implement a statewide mask mandate to slow the spread of the Delta variant... SECTION 1: GENERAL PROVISIONS. A)... a statewide public health emergency is declared to continue to exist...

Enforcement

As in 137 JBE 2021

Notes

Carried the statewide school-inclusive mask mandate through the last month of Q3 2021.

Retrieval note

Issue date inferred from the recitals (post-Ida, Aug. 29, 2021) and the Wayback capture of Sept. 1, 2021; the Governor's file name mislabels it '2020'. Pages 1-2 read by image.