CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — Montgomery County Mayor Jim Durrett extended his executive order requiring face masks to last until August 3 at 12:01 a.m.
Mayor Durrett signed Emergency Executive Order 12 Friday, which extends Emergency Order 11.
The order states that residents must wear a face covering while in public when social distancing is not available. It also states that businesses and facilities can post signage informing customers of the requirement to wear a mask and can enforce the requirement within the business.
Exceptions under the emergency order are:
- Any person who is of age 12 or under
- Any person who cannot safely wear a face covering because he/she has trouble breathing due to an underlying health condition or another bona fide medical or health-related reason for not wearing a face covering
- Anyone who is incapacitated or otherwise unable to remove a face-covering without assistance
- Persons in a private residence
- Persons who are outdoors, unless the person cannot substantially maintain appropriate 6-foot social distancing from others outside of the person's household
- Persons while eating or drinking
- Persons in a place of worship or participating in any type of religious ceremony or activity attendant thereto (unless a face-covering is required by the place of worship or other location where the religious ceremony is taking place), although persons in places of worship or otherwise participating in religious ceremonies or activities attendant thereto are strongly encouraged to wear face coverings to slow the spread of COVID-19
- Persons within private motor vehicles, unless such vehicle is being used for public transportation or a vehicle for hire
- Persons working under conditions where appropriate social distancing of at least six feet from others outside the person's household is substantially maintained
- Persons present in government facilities, or on government premises, who shall be subject to the rules and regulations of the governmental entity operating the facility or premises.
- Persons present in the public areas of all Montgomery County government facilities will wear cloth or other face-coverings, subject to the age and health restrictions outlined herein, and subject to number
- Other local governmental entities may issue their own directives regarding their facilities
- Persons in a voting site for the purpose of voting or administering an election; although such persons are strongly encouraged to wear face coverings to slow the spread of COVID-19
- Persons who are engaging in strenuous exercise and/or physical activity, provided, however, that such persons shall maintain 6-foot social distancing when not wearing a face covering
- Persons for whom wearing a face-covering would pose a safety or security risk
