The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County · Nashville, Memphis and Knoxville · Tennessee
- Level
- City
- Authority
- Metropolitan Charter; Tenn. Code Ann. § 58-2-110 (local state of emergency)
- Issued
- 2020-05-18 May 18, 2020
- Effective
- 2020-05-18 (filed with the Metropolitan Clerk 1:48 p.m. May 18, 2020) (read as 2020-05-18)
- In force
- May 18, 2020 to June 30, 2021
- Quarters
- 2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q2
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Face-covering requirementCourts and public offices
- Addressees
- all persons entering Metro Government buildings and indoor spaces
- Metro employees
- vendors and contractors
- Functions reached
- CB access to courts, clerks and permit offices conditioned on masking
- WF contractors and vendors at Metro sites masked
- Collection
- Nashville, Memphis and Knoxville MET-BNA
Operative words
1. All persons entering a building or indoor space owned, managed, or leased by the Metropolitan Government shall wear a cloth face covering or mask.... 2. Once a person has entered the building, he or she shall continue to wear the cloth face covering or mask while in the building.
Enforcement
Entry refused to persons without a face covering outside the listed exceptions; offices may ask non-compliant persons to leave
Notes
Recites Metropolitan Public Health Order 4 as amended. Exceptions for children under two, older children unable to wear a mask, and persons whose health or safety would be jeopardized; no medical documentation required.
Retrieval noteTwo pages; scanned; read from rendered images. End date not verified; Metro buildings reopened with the May 2021 orders.