Pulaski County: County Judge Issues Updated COVID Executive Order

Press release from the Pulaski County Government:

July 2, 2021

Please read the excerpt from the executive order below: 

NOW, THEREFORE, I, Barry Hyde, as Pulaski County Judge, by the authority vested in me by the Arkansas Constitution and laws of the State of Arkansas, as chief executive of Pulaski County, promulgate the following Executive Order in continued response to the pandemic novel virus COVID-19, effective upon filing:

The declared state of emergency shall continue and be renewed in effect through August 8, 2021:

The restrictions on entry into county facilities by the general public remain lifted, except as follows:

Before entry, all persons are subject to temperature checks and will be refused entry if their temperature is 100.4º F or higher. All persons must wear a facemask in county facilities, except those persons wearing the Human Resources Department-issued wristband demonstrating voluntary participation in HR’s program to permit vaccinated persons to enter and remain in county facilities without a mask.

The facemask requirement for entry into buildings, imposed by this Executive Order, will expire at the close of business on July 27, 2021, pursuant to Act 1002 of 2021. Act 1002 was adopted by the Arkansas General Assembly with sixty-nine (69) members of the House and nineteen (19) members of the Senate voting to require that local governments end the use of mandatory face coverings as a protective measure against this global pandemic, which has now killed six hundred and seventy-seven (677) Pulaski Countians, five thousand nine hundred and nine (5,909) Arkansans, more than six hundred and five thousand (605,000) Americans, and nearly four million people globally.

County services and county-supported services remain available to the public. Pulaski County continues to encourage the public and county-paid personnel to conduct business with or between the County and Courts digitally, by phone, email, online, or video conference and to utilize the digital tools implemented in response to COVID-19 to the extent that such use expands access to county and county-supported services.

Social distancing is mandatory for all, except those persons wearing the aforementioned wristband issued by HR.

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This press release was produced by the Pulaski County Government. The views expressed here are the author’s own.