The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Hamilton County, Tennessee (Chattanooga) · Tennessee
- Level
- County
- Authority
- Tenn. Code Ann. §§ 68-2-601 to -609; EO 38 ¶ 13.c; EO 54 ¶ 5
- Issued
- 2020-10-08 Oct. 8, 2020
- Effective
- 12:01 a.m. Oct. 9, 2020 (read as 2020-10-09)
- End
- 11:59 p.m. Nov. 22, 2020 (¶ 12); later directives continued the mandate into 2021 (read as 2020-11-22)
- In force
- Oct. 9, 2020 to Nov. 22, 2020
- Quarters
- 2020 Q4
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Face-covering requirementWorkplace rules
- Addressees
- all persons in Hamilton County; businesses
- Functions reached
- SF/EMP business enforcement duty
- CB
- WF
- Collection
- Tennessee TN
Operative words
Effective at 12:01 a.m. on October 9, 2020, all persons in Hamilton County shall wear a facial covering or mask which covers the mouth and nose at all times when indoors in all public and private buildings and when outdoors except under the following exceptions... 5. Any business failing to enforce this Directive or person refusing to leave an establishment when requested due to no facial covering will be subject to civil citations... 10. Violations of this Directive by businesses and/or individuals shall be punishable by citation issued by the Hamilton County Health Department and/or criminally by local law enforcement as a Class C misdemeanor.... 12. This Directive shall remain in effect until 11:59 pm, Sunday, November 22nd, 2020.
Enforcement
Civil citations; Class C misdemeanor
Retrieval noteScanned; text read by OCR (heading 'EFFECTIVE October 8th, 2020'; operative clause effective Oct. 9, 2020).