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Ex. MET-SFO-070 Order Primary source read

BART face-mask requirement for riders (announced Apr. 21, 2020, effective Apr. 22, 2020)

Face masks required on BART

BART (General Manager; Board of Directors) · San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District (BART) (Sector regulator)

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The record

Jurisdiction
San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District (BART) · San Francisco Bay Area · California
Level
Sector regulator
Authority
Cal. Pub. Util. Code § 28500 et seq. (BART District); county health-officer face-covering orders of Apr. 17, 2020; later the CDC conveyance order (86 Fed. Reg. 8025) and TSA security directives
Issued
2020-04-21 Apr. 21, 2020
Effective
2020-04-22
End
continued under the federal transit mask order through Q3 2021 and to Apr. 2022; BART's Board reinstituted its own requirement Apr. 28, 2022 (read as 2022-04-28)
In force
Apr. 22, 2020 to Apr. 28, 2022
Quarters
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
Limitation types
Face-covering requirementTravel and quarantine
Addressees
  • riders
  • employees
Functions reached
  • WF commuting workforce
  • TR
  • CB
Collection
San Francisco Bay Area MET-SFO

Operative words

Face masks required on BART... [riders and employees must] wear face masks that fully covers a person's nose and mouth in paid areas of the [system].

Enforcement

BART police enforcement; federal enforcement under the CDC order from Feb. 1, 2021

Notes

The exhibit is a rendering of BART's live article page as it stands in 2026, which records the Apr. 21, 2020 announcement and the later Board actions and TSA extensions;

Retrieval note

Agency's own text read.

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