Wednesday, April 29, 2020

EMERGENCY ORDER - "face covering over their mouth and nose"

Town of Franklin 
Board of Health
355 East Central Street Franklin, MA 02038

DECLARATION OF PUBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCY - EMERGENCY ORDER

Pursuant to the declaration of a public health emergency on March 17, 2020, and all other authorizing statutes and regulations, acting by and through its agent authorized under MGL c. 111, §31 and we, the Board of Health of the Town of Franklin Massachusetts, hereby order the following:

1) All employees of all essential businesses shall wear a face covering over their mouth and nose when interacting with the public and when the staff cannot maintain a safe social distance of six feet from any other co-worker. Nothing in this order shall require the use of a face covering by anyone for whom doing so would be contrary to his or her health or safety because of a medical condition.

2) All essential businesses shall post on their main entrance doors that the board of health is strongly advising people to wear face coverings upon entrance of an essential business.

This emergency order shall be effective beginning Wednesday, APRIL 29, 2020 AT 12:01AM and remain in effect until notice is given, pursuant to the Board of Health’s judgement that the Public Health Emergency no longer exists. To the extent necessary, this Order shall be enforced by Board of Health officials.
ORDERED at the Virtual Board of Health meeting this 27th day of April 2020. 

Cathleen Liberty, Director of Public Health, Franklin Board of Health


PDF of this can be found on the Town of Franklin page
https://www.franklinma.gov/sites/franklinma/files/uploads/emergency_face_covering_order_2.pdf

Shared from Twitter
https://twitter.com/TOFranklinMA/status/1255215435148075010?s=09

Meeting notes for the April 27, 2020 session
https://www.franklinmatters.org/2020/04/board-of-health-approves-mandate-for.html

screengrab of Board of Health meeting April 27, 2020
screengrab of Board of Health meeting April 27, 2020

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