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Resolution No. 2020-623, Resolution Adopting a Face Mask Mandate for the City of Waterloo

Resolution requiring every person in Waterloo to wear a face covering when in public and unable to stay six feet from others

Waterloo City Council · Waterloo, Iowa (City)

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Jurisdiction
Waterloo, Iowa · Iowa
Level
City
Authority
Iowa Const. art. III, § 38A; Iowa Code §§ 362.2, 364.1-.3; City of Des Moines v. Gruen, 457 N.W.2d 340 (Iowa 1990)
Issued
2020-08-17 Aug. 17, 2020
Effective
2020-08-18
End
Six weeks by its terms; extended six weeks on September 21, 2020 and indefinitely on November 9, 2020 with authority in the Mayor to end it (secondary) (read as 2021-03-31)
In force
Aug. 18, 2020 to Mar. 31, 2021
Quarters
2020 Q32020 Q42021 Q1
Limitation types
Face-covering requirement
Addressees
  • every person in the City of Waterloo
Functions reached
  • CB customers masked in public
  • SF/DR/SL premises in Waterloo (Black Hawk County; Tyson plant community)
Collection
Iowa IA

Operative words

'Every person in the City of Waterloo must wear a face covering when in public and cannot stay six (6) feet apart from others.' [Includes public transportation and private car services; exemptions for children under two, persons with breathing difficulty, incapacitated persons, persons advised by a medical, legal or behavioral health professional, public safety personnel, persons exercising, eating or drinking, or obtaining a service requiring removal.] 'Enforcement for this resolution shall be left up to the Mayor or designee with the aim towards compliance not punishment.'

Enforcement

Mayor or designee; compliance-oriented, no stated penalty

Notes

Adopted 6-1 on August 17, 2020; recites home-rule authority and that a city may set standards 'more stringent than those imposed by state law, unless a state law provides otherwise' (Iowa Code § 364.3).

Retrieval note

City's own PDF read (text layer).