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Executive Order 20-24

Twenty-first Supplemental Emergency Declaration - Requiring Cloth Face Masks at Work

Governor Gina M. Raimondo · Rhode Island (State)

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Jurisdiction
Rhode Island
Level
State
Authority
R.I. Const. art. IX; R.I. Gen. Laws tit. 30, ch. 15; tit. 23, ch. 8
Issued
2020-04-14 Apr. 14, 2020
Effective
2020-04-18
End
2020-05-18 by its terms; the workplace mask duty was carried into EO 20-30 (May 5, 2020) and the RIDOH Safe Activities regulation (Ex. RI-069) and continued in the mask orders through EO 21-69 (terminated July 6, 2021) (read as 2021-09-30)
In force
Apr. 18, 2020 to Sept. 30, 2021
Quarters
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
Limitation types
Face-covering requirementWorkplace rules
Addressees
  • all employees of customer-facing and office-based businesses and non-profits
  • their employers
Functions reached
  • OF office operations
  • SF sales floor
  • EMP employer-provided PPE duty
  • HR
Collection
Rhode Island RI

Operative words

All employees of Rhode Island's customer/client-facing businesses and non-profit organizations, office-based businesses and non-profit organizations, and any other such business category as determined by the Department of Business Regulation (DBR) that are still in operation shall wear cloth face coverings unless an employee can easily, continuously, and measurably maintain at least six (6) feet of distance from other employees for the duration of his or her work... 2. All such businesses must provide, at their expense, face coverings or materials for the making of such face coverings for their employees.

Enforcement

R.I. Gen. Laws tit. 23, ch. 8; DBR category determinations

Notes

Employer must supply masks at its own expense.