The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Connecticut
- Level
- State
- Authority
- Conn. Gen. Stat. sections 19a-131a and 28-9; section 51-164n(b) amended
- Issued
- 2021-05-20 May 20, 2021
- Effective
- 2021-05-20 (immediately; replacing EO 12 of May 18, 2021) (read as 2021-05-20)
- End
- Through July 20, 2021; extended to Sept. 30, 2021 by EO 13 s.1; repealed and replaced Aug. 5, 2021 by EO 13A (read as 2021-07-20)
- In force
- May 20, 2021 to July 20, 2021
- Quarters
- 2021 Q22021 Q3
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Face-covering requirementWorkplace rules
- Addressees
- any person indoors in a public place who is not fully vaccinated
- every person in the DPH-listed settings
- employers (liable for employees' fines)
- businesses and property owners (may require universal masking)
- Functions reached
- EMP every workplace with unvaccinated staff
- CB unvaccinated customers
- HC/CL/EC/IN universal masking in health-care, transit, school and child-care settings via the DPH rule
- Collection
- Connecticut CT
Operative words
any person while indoors in a public place who does not maintain a safe social distance of approximately six feet from every other person and who is not fully vaccinated for COVID-19 shall cover their mouth and nose with a mask or cloth face covering.... The Commissioner of Public Health shall issue a rule setting forth a comprehensive list of facilities, venues, and other locations where masks and cloth face coverings are required and will amend said rule as the Commissioner determines is warranted by public health conditions.... An employer, rather than the employee, is liable for the fine for any employee's failure to wear a required mask or cloth-face covering while at work.
Enforcement
100-dollar fine, employer liable; issued by DPH, health directors, police, campus safety; municipal orders preempted where in conflict (subsection d)
Notes
Subsection (f) preserves SDE and OEC authority to require masks in schools and child care.
Retrieval noteEO 12 (May 18, 2021), which 12A repealed, was read; it also listed commercial aircraft, airports, bus and train stations and correctional facilities.