The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Vermont
- Level
- State
- Authority
- 16 V.S.A. §§ 563, 834, 242
- Issued
- 2021-08-18 Aug. 18, 2021
- Effective
- 2021-08-18
- End
- n/a (read as 2021-09-30)
- In force
- Aug. 18, 2021 to Sept. 30, 2021
- Quarters
- 2021 Q3
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Face-covering requirementSchools and child care
- Addressees
- superintendents and school boards
- Functions reached
- IN instruction
- WF workforce (excluded children at home)
- AC activities
- Collection
- Vermont VT
Operative words
a school district can require compliance with a locally-adopted mask policy... School district boards are given broad authority to 'take any action that is required for the sound administration of the school district.' 16 V.S.A. § 563... A school district may adopt a policy requiring students to wear a mask at school, and may enforce the policy by refusing to admit a student who does not comply, as is the case with other school district attendance requirements.
Enforcement
Local school-board policy enforced by exclusion from school
Notes
The legal basis on which 'every school but one' adopted a masking requirement in August-September 2021 (VT-083, VT-085); school boards are governmental bodies.