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- Jurisdiction
- Maricopa County, Arizona (Superior, Justice and Municipal Courts) · Phoenix and Tucson · Arizona
- Level
- Court
- Authority
- Arizona Supreme Court Administrative Order 2021-109
- Issued
- 2021-08-04 Aug. 4, 2021
- Effective
- 2021-08-09
- End
- 'until further notice' (in force Sept. 30, 2021) (read as 2021-09-30)
- In force
- Aug. 9, 2021 to Sept. 30, 2021
- Quarters
- 2021 Q3
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Face-covering requirementCourts and public officesWorkplace rules
- Addressees
- all judicial branch employees and judicial officers of the superior, justice and municipal courts
- all other persons entering any court facility in Maricopa County
- Functions reached
- CT/CRT every court facility in the county (litigants, jurors, lawyers, process servers, clerks' customers)
- WF court employees
- OP
- Collection
- Phoenix and Tucson MET-PHX
Operative words
Currently there are 159 cases of Covid-19 per 100,000 people in Maricopa County, qualifying the county as a 'high transmission area'... IT IS ORDERED that effective August 9, 2021 and until further notice, all judicial branch employees and judicial officers, including employees and judicial officers of all justice courts and municipal courts, shall wear a mask or face covering when they are in a court facility in Maricopa County.... IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that effective August 9, 2021 and until further notice, all other persons entering a court facility in Maricopa County are required to wear a mask or face covering at all times that they are inside the facility. Any person who refuses to wear a mask or face covering as directed by court personnel will be denied access to the facility.
Enforcement
Denial of access; remote participation to be arranged
Notes
Q3 2021 reinstatement of a universal court-facility mask requirement in the largest county in Arizona, six weeks after EO 2021-06 barred local mask mandates outside government buildings.