The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Washington
- Level
- State
- Authority
- RCW 43.06.220(1)(h); chapters 38.08, 38.52, 43.06 RCW
- Issued
- 2020-05-31 May 31, 2020
- Effective
- 2020-06-01 (employee face coverings from June 8, 2020) (read as 2020-06-01)
- End
- 2020-07-01 11:59 p.m. by its terms; extended by 20-25.5 (July 1), 20-25.6 (July 7), 20-25.7 (July 24, open-ended) (read as 2020-07-01)
- In force
- June 1, 2020 to July 1, 2020
- Quarters
- 2020 Q22020 Q3
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Face-covering requirementWorkplace rulesOperating condition
- Addressees
- all people in Washington
- all businesses
- employers and employees
- counties
- Functions reached
- Collection
- Washington WA
Operative words
Proclamations 20-25, 20-25.1, 20-25.2, and 20-25.3 (Stay Home - Stay Healthy) are amended to extend all of the prohibitions and each expiration date therein to 11:59 p.m. on July 1, 2020, and are renamed (Safe Start - Stay Healthy), and that except as otherwise provided in this order or the Safe Start Washington Phased Reopening County-by-County Plan found here, all other provisions of Proclamations 20-25, 20-25.1, 20-25.2, and 20-25.3 shall remain in full force and effect.... beginning on June 1, 2020, the Safe Start Washington Phased Reopening Plan will be applied on a county-by-county basis, and will allow any county that has been in Phase 1 or 2 for three weeks to apply to the Secretary of Health to move in whole or in part to the next phase... I hereby order... that, beginning on June 8, 2020, when on the job, all employees must wear a facial covering except when working alone or when the job has no in-person interaction as detailed in the Safe Start Washington Phased Reopening Plan; and, further, that employers must provide cloth facial coverings to employees
Enforcement
Violators of this order may be subject to criminal penalties pursuant to RCW 43.06.220(5).
Notes
The stay-home prohibitions did not lapse on June 1, 2020: they were extended and renamed, and every activity remained prohibited except as the county's phase and the industry requirements allowed.
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