The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Orange County, Florida · Orlando · Florida
- Level
- County
- Authority
- Fla. Stat. ch. 252; Orange County Code ch. 2, art. IX
- Issued
- 2021-04-28 Apr. 28, 2021
- Effective
- 2021-04-28 (10:39 a.m.) immediately (read as 2021-04-28)
- End
- Suspended by State EO 21-102 (May 3, 2021); void July 1, 2021 (ch. 2021-8) (read as 2021-05-03)
- In force
- Apr. 28, 2021 to May 3, 2021
- Quarters
- 2021 Q2
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Gathering capFace-covering requirementWorkplace rules
- Addressees
- all persons in Orange County
- all businesses with on-site operations
- Functions reached
- EMP workplace masking and three-foot distancing
- SF/DR/SL customer premises
- CB customers
- GATH gatherings (sec. 1)
- Collection
- Orlando MET-ORL
Operative words
Section 2. Face Coverings Required.... (a) Both employees and patrons of businesses that require employees and patrons to be within three (3) feet must wear a face covering... (b) Every person working, living, visiting, or doing business in Orange County is required to wear a face covering consistent with the guidelines herein while in an indoor place that is open to the public.... Section 2 [sic]. Minimum Standards for Businesses and Places of Assembly.... (c) Businesses shall ensure that employees wear face coverings in the workplace when within three (3) feet of someone else... Businesses shall require customers, clients, and other visitors to the establishment to wear face coverings...
Enforcement
Through EEO 2020-51 sec. 3 (code enforcement citations and magistrate fines), which it amends only in part
Notes
Supersedes EEO 2020-12 secs. 1(a), 2(a), 2(b); EEO 2020-25 secs. 2(a), 2(c); EEO 2020-51 secs. 2(a), 2(b), 2(d). Announced as Phase 1 of a three-phase easing tied to 50 and 70 percent vaccination or 5 percent positivity (county newsroom, Apr. 28, 2021). Five days later the State suspended it.
Retrieval noteThe last substantive Orange County mandate before EO 21-102; proves the mandate was in force on the first day of 2021 Q2 and to May 3, 2021.