The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- City of Cambridge, Massachusetts · Boston · Massachusetts
- Level
- City
- Authority
- G.L. c. 111; 310 CMR 11.05; 105 CMR 300.200; Cambridge state of emergency
- Issued
- 2020-09-25 Sept. 25, 2020
- Effective
- 2020-09-28 (bar seating only from Oct. 3, 2020 after inspection) (read as 2020-09-28)
- End
- 'Until further notice or until the declaration of a State of Emergency in the City has been rescinded' (City reopening orders rescinded May 6 and May 29, 2021) (read as 2021-05-29)
- In force
- Sept. 28, 2020 to May 29, 2021
- Quarters
- 2020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q2
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Capacity limitAlcohol and barsWorkplace rules
- Addressees
- all restaurants within the City
- Functions reached
- DR party size six
- BA bar seating conditioned on inspection
- CB patrons
- Collection
- Boston MET-BOS
Operative words
1. All restaurants within the City shall comply with the Sector Specific Workplace Specific Safety Standards for Restaurants to Address COVID-19, dated September 22, 2020, with an effective date of September 28, 2020... with the following exceptions: a. The size of a party seated at a table cannot exceed 6 people; and b. Seated food service at a bar shall only be permitted commencing on Saturday, October 3, 2020, and after the Cambridge Inspectional Services Department has inspected and signed off that (i) there is a physical barrier (e.g. Plexiglass) separating customers from the bar space that is at least 30 inches high... or (ii) that there are no active work areas behind the bar or that any staff working behind the bar are at least 6 feet away from all people seated at the bar. The size of a party seated at a bar cannot exceed 6 people.
Enforcement
Inspectional Services sign-off before bar seating; stricter State provisions govern
Notes
Cambridge, like Boston and Salem, refused the State's ten-person party rule of Sept. 28, 2020.