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The record
- Jurisdiction
- Maryland
- Level
- Sector regulator
- Authority
- Guidance (not an order)
- Issued
- 2021-07-23 July 23, 2021
- Effective
- 2021-07-23
- End
- Superseded by later revisions (2021-22) (read as 2021-09-30)
- In force
- July 23, 2021 to Sept. 30, 2021
- Quarters
- 2021 Q3
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Face-covering requirementSchools and child careQuarantine and isolation
- Addressees
- local school systems, nonpublic schools and child care programs
- Functions reached
- IN instruction
- EC child care
- TR school buses
- WF quarantine of exposed children and parents
- Collection
- Maryland MD
Operative words
Each local school system, nonpublic school, and child care program may set their own policies and procedures for their schools, students/children, teachers and staff. However, MDH/MSDE strongly recommend that these entities follow the recommendations in this notice... A. Masks and Face Coverings. MDH/MSDE strongly recommend, but do not require, that all individuals who are not fully vaccinated continue to wear face coverings in all indoor settings outside [of their home]... Schools and child care programs should be aware that the federal order that face masks be worn by all people while on public [transportation conveyances, including school buses, is still in effect]... F. Contact Tracing in Combination with Isolation and Quarantine... [close] contacts should quarantine
Enforcement
Guidance; the federal transit order it recites is binding under 42 U.S.C. 264
Notes
Documents that, on July 23, 2021, Maryland left school masking to local systems (which then imposed it district by district in August 2021) and that the federal school-bus mask order remained binding;
Retrieval noteGuidance, graded primary as to its own text; not an order.