The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Multnomah County, Oregon · Portland · Oregon
- Level
- County
- Authority
- Multnomah County Declaration of Emergency (Mar. 11, 2020, as extended) and County Code emergency powers; Multnomah County Health Officer
- Issued
- 2021-08-09 Aug. 9, 2021
- Effective
- 2021-08-13
- End
- Expected 'until January' (release); the County's 'local mask requirement' was lifted Mar. 12, 2022 (MET-PDX-016) (read as 2022-03-12)
- In force
- Aug. 13, 2021 to Mar. 12, 2022
- Quarters
- 2021 Q3
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Face-covering requirementWorkplace rules
- Addressees
- all people 5 and older in Multnomah County (2 and older if tolerated)
- all businesses (legally required to comply)
- Functions reached
- SF sales floors (customers masked)
- DR dining (masked except while eating and drinking)
- FC fitness
- PE performances and venues
- WS indoor worship
- OF offices open to the public
- EMP businesses must ensure compliance
- CB customers
- WF employees
- Collection
- Portland MET-PDX
Operative words
Beginning Friday, Aug. 13, all people in Multnomah County will be required to wear a mask in indoor public spaces. Masks will be required, regardless of vaccination status, for all people 5 and older (2 years and older if tolerated).... Chair Deborah Kafoury this week will issue an executive order that legally requires individuals and businesses to comply with the county-wide rule.... The rule excludes people actively eating and drinking in food establishments.... Enforcement will be based on complaints emailed or phoned into the County.... Violators could face a warning or a fine up to a $1,000. The sharp upward trend in cases and limping rate of vaccine mean the mandate is likely to remain in place until January.
Enforcement
Complaint-based; warning or fine up to $1,000 (release); civil fine of up to $1,000 per day per offense under the Apr. 9, 2020 extension of the declaration (MET-PDX-005)
Notes
The first county in Oregon to reinstate an indoor mask mandate in the Delta wave (MET-PDX-015). The release also records that the County was preparing to implement the State's health-care-worker vaccine mandate 'beginning Oct. 1' covering nearly 2,000 County employees (OAR 333-019-1010, Exs. OR-046, OR-051). The State's OAR 333-019-1025 took effect the same day, Aug. 13, 2021 (Ex. OR-048).
Retrieval noteCounty release announcing the order; nothing in this exhibit set shows a rescission, and MET-PDX-016 (Mar. 1, 2022) describes the County lifting 'its local mask requirement' on Mar. 12, 2022. Source URL is the link to this page shown in MET-PDX-015 and MET-PDX-016.