Where are face coverings required? Indoors All indoor spaces open to the public. Healthcare settings (doctor and dentist offices, pharmacies, clinics, vet clinics, blood banks). Employee areas (workspaces and meeting rooms) for all private businesses and organizations where social distancing can’t be observed. Outdoors Waiting in line to get into any space open to the public. Employees Employees, staff, or volunteers engaging in work unless in an individual office/cubicle with no other person less than 6 feet from them. Inside/off-site if interacting with members of the public; In any space visited by the public – even if no public is there at the time; and Where food is prepared or packaged for distribution. When DON’T I have to wear a face covering? Some instances where face-coverings are not required: while actively eating or drinking, provided the individual remains in place while eating or drinking; while alone or only with other members of the same household in a room, cubicle, school-provided transportation, or similar enclosure; while obtaining or providing a service involving the nose or face for which temporary removal of the Face-Covering is necessary to perform the service; while actively performing as an athlete; while giving an educational, artistic, cultural, musical, or theatrical presentation or performance at a school for an audience or at a religious gathering; while exercising or engaging in athletic training while indoors and maintaining at least six feet of physical distance from any other individual; while purchasing a product or receiving a service that requires identification where the individual may briefly remove a Face-Covering, as necessary, so that the retailer or service provider can verify identity; while a student is napping; while swimming or on duty as a lifeguard; and while giving religious instruction.

WHEN AND WHERE? - Summit County Health Department

Where are face coverings required?

Indoors
- All indoor spaces open to the public.
- Healthcare settings (doctor and dentist offices, pharmacies, clinics, vet clinics, blood banks).
- Employee areas (workspaces and meeting rooms) for all private businesses and organizations where social distancing can’t be observed.

Outdoors
- Waiting in line to get into any space open to the public.

Employees
- Employees, staff, or volunteers engaging in work unless in an individual office/cubicle with no other person less than 6 feet from them.
- Inside/off-site if interacting with members of the public;
- In any space visited by the public – even if no public is there at the time; and
- Where food is prepared or packaged for distribution.

When DON’T I have to wear a face covering?
Some instances where face-coverings are not required:

while actively eating or drinking, provided the individual remains in place while eating or drinking;
while alone or only with other members of the same household in a room, cubicle, school-provided transportation, or similar enclosure;
while obtaining or providing a service involving the nose or face for which temporary removal of the Face-Covering is necessary to perform the service;
while actively performing as an athlete;
while giving an educational, artistic, cultural, musical, or theatrical presentation or performance at a school for an audience or at a religious gathering;
while exercising or engaging in athletic training while indoors and maintaining at least six feet of physical distance from any other individual;
while purchasing a product or receiving a service that requires identification where the individual may briefly remove a Face-Covering, as necessary, so that the retailer or service provider can verify identity;
while a student is napping;
while swimming or on duty as a lifeguard; and
while giving religious instruction.

WHEN AND WHERE?

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