The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- New Jersey
- Level
- State
- Authority
- Executive Order No. 165 (recited: 'requires all staff & customers to wear face coverings on board all transit vehicles and inside all stations & facilities'); NJ TRANSIT's own extension to platforms and stations 'regardless of physical distance'
- Issued
- 2020-07-30 July 30, 2020
- Effective
- 2020-08-03 (cash fares and front-door boarding on barrier-equipped buses); 2020-07-15 8:00 p.m. (EO 165 face coverings) (read as 2020-08-03)
- End
- Face coverings on transit continued under EO 165, EO 192 and EO 242 para. 13 and, from Feb. 1, 2021, under the federal conveyance order; rear-door boarding ended bus by bus as barriers were installed (fall 2020) (read as 2021-09-30)
- In force
- Aug. 3, 2020 to Sept. 30, 2021
- Quarters
- 2020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Face-covering requirementWorkplace rulesOther
- Addressees
- all NJ TRANSIT customers (vehicles, stations, platforms, stops)
- all public-facing NJ TRANSIT employees
- employers (asked to continue work from home or stagger hours)
- Functions reached
- WF commuting workforce (mask condition for the entire journey; bus boarding and fare restrictions continuing)
- OP office (employers asked to keep staff at home or stagger hours)
- HR (public-facing employee mask rule)
- CB customer access
- TV travel
- Character
- binding
- Collection
- State transport, ports and transit authorities AGY-ST-TRANSPORT-PORTS-TRANSIT
Operative words
Cash fares and front door boarding will remain temporarily suspended on buses which have not yet had the barrier installation.... As a precaution to prevent the spread of COVID-19, cash fares on buses were temporarily suspended with customers restricted to rear-door boarding to increase social distancing between bus operators and customers.... Governor Murphy's Executive Order 165 requires all staff & customers to wear face coverings on board all transit vehicles and inside all stations & facilities. Masks are also required on all outdoor train platforms & bus stops when distancing is not practicable. NJ TRANSIT requires all public-facing employees to wear face coverings at all times when performing their duties.... Employers can also play a significant role by helping flatten the peak travel curves and spread ridership more evenly over the entire service day by encouraging employees to continue to work from home if they can, or stagger work hours and work days.... Customers are required to do the same under Governor Murphy's Executive Order 165... NJ TRANSIT has extended this requirement to the entire journey to also include all NJ TRANSIT-owned public spaces (e.g. stairs, platforms and stations), regardless of physical distance.
Enforcement
EO 165 penalties (N.J.S.A. App. A:9-49, -50: disorderly persons offense; up to six months' imprisonment, $1,000 fine); NJ TRANSIT condition of carriage
Notes
Implementing rule under EO 165 with the carrier's own extension beyond the order (masks on all platforms and stations regardless of distance). The employer-directed request (continue work from home; stagger hours) is the transit authority's own statement of the compelled commuting pattern.
Retrieval noteRendered copy of the authority's own release dated July 30, 2020 (no Wayback banner in the text layer). EO 165 date and effective time cross-checked to the New Jersey State file (issued July 13, effective July 15, 2020 8:00 p.m.).